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Do you remember watching the movie, The Matrix? Do you remember the green columns of zeroes and ones that were streaming down the screen? Those ones and zeros are part of a numbering system called Binary. Binary is a simple system that only utilizes two character symbols but accomplishes large counting tasks. Binary is not a number system you would want to use for everyday tasks because there are no shortcuts, you have to do the equation the same way every time and it takes a long time to do most calculations. That is why we use what is called the Denary (AKA Decimal) number system. The Denary number system is called a base-10 system as opposed to Binary being called a base-2 system. Base-10 means that the system uses ten different …show more content…

This is why Binary is not effective enough for use in everyday calculations. Humans can only remember digits in order up to seven digits. After the seventh digit is reached it becomes very hard to remember. Because of this it would make normal calculations hard. People would have to write every problem just make sure they are carrying the correct digits. Conversion of Binary to Denary is very easy once you get the general notion of how it works. Converting Binary as simple as adding together the ones in the number a multiplying them by their place by two. As one may remember from elementary school, the inherent value of a number is judged by what column it is in. These columns being ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, so on and so forth. For example, if a seven is placed in the tens column it has a higher value than a seven that is placed in the ones column, because the seven in the tens column is multiplied by ten. In Binary, where a one is placed is similar to where that seven may have been to give it value. If a one were to be placed in the second column it would be multiplied by two to the first power. These two value systems are what make these systems base-10 and base-2. For each column the number is raised by the power. To further explain how to convert Binary to Denary look at the following example.
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 0
2^7 2^6 2^5 2^4 2^3 2^2 2^1 2^0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
128 + 0 + 0 +

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