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solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:00 pm

smoker wrote:i dont understand....what the hell is binary?

I guess you're not a nerd. *snort snort*

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:11 pm

Isnt that the code all digital stuff is written to.

Like a CD is read as all 1 and 0's...?

Heck I dunno really either, dont car :happy055:

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:21 pm

howstuffworks probably has a section on binary.

jonnyb · Post by **jonnyb** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:21 pm

its counting, like 1, 2, 3.. etc
but with only 2 numbers, 1, and 0.

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:07 pm

binary is a base 2 (rather than our regular base 10) number system (and for the record, its not 1,2,3... its 0,1,2,3-9 :P) used in computers and electronics. its essentially all a computer can really understand - 1's and 0's. in early days they would use binary code to detrmine how to set switches on old computer (1 on, 0 off or whatever) to run primitive computer programs and such.

for those geekier than me, you know thats a terrible description, but i didn't pay attention to the binary lesson.

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:09 pm

isn't it also how phone conversations are transmitted?

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:59 pm

ok guys, here is one for you. Convert this hex code to binary. D970

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:03 pm

eeasy 1101100101110000 (ok i used calculator but it still would have been easy)

now if you would have said base 10... well.. calculator would be my only option.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:07 pm

Yep each 4 digits is one number and the 4 digits break down to 8, 4, 2, 1 (15or F converted to hex)

A couple of the systems on the F16 report problems to us in hex, and binary. So I have to be pretty good at converting between the two.

OnYrMrk · Post by **OnYrMrk** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:07 pm

I work in binary every day teaching TCP/IP code. We break down TCP/IP into individual frames and show in hex what is going on, then convert to binary there after. Ok...for you Linux/Unix types...tell me what this means:

rm -rf /bin/laden