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

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

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:

howstuffworks probably has a section on binary.

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

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.

isn't it also how phone conversations are transmitted?

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

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.

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.

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