Thursday, September 11, 2008

How old do you think you really are ?

On Thursday we learned about Binary codes and how we can switch numbers into binary. At first it was a little confusing but when Mr.Case (my teacher) started giving us examples and making us solve them, we all began to grasp the context. Before we want to turn numbers into a binary code, we have to make a value chart and so that we can identify binary numbers faster. It starts out with 1 times 2, two times two, and you keep multiplying each number by two. The binary numbers are: 2, 4, 8,16, 32 etc.
In binary, base 2 numbers are used instead of base 10. Base 10 is used for normal numbers like: 1, 10, 100, 1000 etc. Base2 numbers consist of only ones and zeros.

See you later!

Peggy

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