What is binary?

@zugedanit (1958)
Philippines
February 17, 2007 10:44am CST
What is binary?
8 responses
• India
18 Feb 07
Binary is a number system have only 1 and 0.Computer understands only in this language.
@Clearr (145)
• Denmark
17 Feb 07
Binnary is a system you can write in and encrypt in here it is i really hope you like this respone A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-X-Y-Z-Æ-Ø-Å 01000001-01000010-01000011-01000100-01000101-01000110-01000111-01001000-01001001-01001010-01001011-01001100-01001101-01001110-01001111-01010000-01010001-01010010-01010011-01010100-01010101-01010110-01011000-01011001-01011010-11000110-11011000-11000101- hehe plz mark me as best response if you find it usefull
• India
17 Feb 07
well see technically speaking ,Binary describes a numbering scheme in which there are only two possible values for each digit: 0 and 1. The term also refers to any digital encoding/decoding system in which there are exactly two possible states.In digital data memory, storage, processing, and communications, the 0 and 1 values are sometimes called "low" and "high," respectively. and you will come to know about the term binary or alike in various programming languages !
@koh2007 (341)
• Singapore
17 Feb 07
Binary mean two.. and binary is made up of 0 and 1.. :)
• Pakistan
17 Feb 07
system of just two digits..zero and one..or we can say on off
• India
17 Feb 07
a binary is language which deals with the computer and electronic system in which only two numbers are used 1(one) and 0 (zero) our all transaction and data stored on pc are in form of binary
• United States
17 Feb 07
A numbering system with only two values: 0 (zero) and 1 (one). Refers to the ‘language’ computers speak. Binary code (or machine language) consists only of zeroes and ones (ie a choice is either on or off), called bits. Letters and other information have a specific binary representation, made up of up to 8 bits (one byte).
• Sri Lanka
17 Feb 07
The word "bi" stand for two. And I think you are referring to binary numbers. When binary numbers are taught in our Sri Lankan schools for small children, they rightfully call it "Antelope Maths". You have 10 fingers and got used to counting in 10s. The antelope does not see fingers and seeing only two hooves got used to counting in 2s. So instead of 1,2,3,4,5 he goes 1,10,11,100,101,110,111,1000. He has only two symbols to do his maths. But there are advantages in using binary. We see duality everywhere. A bulb is on or off. Magnet has North and South Poles. The world has day and night. We can easily show binary numbers using light bulbs with a row of bulbs and the lighted ones representing 1 and the ones that are off representing zero. In the computer everything is calculated in binary. It is translated into what we understand before coming to the output device.