BINARY NUMBERS

BY JASMINE BANYE
WHAT IS A BINARY NUMBER

• A binary number is a positional numeral system with two as the base.The

binary number system consists of two different numerals, namely zero and
one.These can be used to represent all other numbers. It is mostly used in
electronic and computer-based devices, networking and digital signal
processing.
FACTS ABOUT BINARY
NUMBERS
FACT ONE

•Computers store data in binary.

A "bit" is a binary value that is
either 0 or 1.
FACT TWO

• In order to store all kinds of data in binary, computers

use a variety of methods. For English text, every
character is represented by a number from 0 to
255,even spaces get a number.
FACT THREE

• For colors, the three additive channels red,

blue and green are stored as 1 byte each,
allowing each color to have 256 different
shades.
FACT FOUR

• When the base of a number exceeds 10

we run out of digits to represent them so
we start using letters. A base 16 or
hexadecimal number can go from 0 to F.
That's 0123456789ABCDEF.
FACT FIVE (LAST FACT)

• All computers use binary at the lowest level. Most computer storage,
like compact discs and DVDs, use binary to represent large files.
• With computers, eight binary bits together is called a byte.The size of files is
commonly measured in kilobytes or megabytes (sometimes in gigabytes). A
kilobyte is 1,024 bytes. A megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes, or 1,048,576 bytes, while a
gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes.
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