http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Binary

Good luck reading that.

Note that this is not meant to be a serious topic in anyway.

A nice and simple display of numbers.

The reading of numbers in any system base, base 2 called binary or base 3 ternary or base 8 the octal system or base 10 our decimal system is all the same.

You just add the numbers and when you reach the base system number you put a 0 down in your addition and move over to the left and put a 1 down.

Example in base 10, 6 +4= 10, in base 3, 2+1=10, in base 5, 1+4=10

The number 38 in base 5 is written 1*x2( 5*5)+2*x(2*5)+3.

And you can do the same for any system base, truly simple is it not.

So what is 1010 in decimal system? It is the number 100.

100= 1*102( 10 to the second power equals 100) + 0*101(0 times 10 to the first of one equals 0)+ 0*100( again =0)

Er Paul, I think you misunderstood my post...

I know binary and the base system, I am just posting a fun link about binary.

I've seen things like this before. They take the alt code for the character and convert it to binary. Each set of eight digits represents one character. I wonder if there is anyone who can read that fluently...

It's as easy as 1 10 11.

Some people - myself included - had to read and write binary for a living. It was important to negotiate getting paid by the bit. On some contracts, they would try to 'stiff' you, by not paying for zeros - on the totally spurious grounds that "they didn't really do anything". It never bothered me. They would always concede that I didn't have to do anything I wasn't paid to do - and then I would leave the zeros out of the code. They would discover pretty quickly just how much those zeros were worth.

What's the best way to learn binary?

A bit at a time.

Heh, that's a good one, surprised my comp sci teacher didn't make that joke yet... he made a lot of comp science jokes....

Check that your Comp Sci teacher is familiar with that famous binary problem: toilets on trains, chronicled by Dijkstra ...

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/burros/ewd594.htm