|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Archie2K

Space Pope
   
|
|
 |
« #94 : 10-07-2005 12:43 »
|
|
Binary started as a numbering system used by computers that could only understand an on/off decision. To convert the numbers into characters, ASCII was invented, whereby every character has a number. For the computer to understand characters it converts the ASCII character into its equivalent binary partner then runs it. As such every character has an eight digit binary equivalent, so to write 1248 onto the screen would require (4 * 8) 32 characters of 0 or 1. However as binary is a numbering system you could write 1248 in its direct binary equivalent but this would not be understood by the computer. As for what I was saying earlier, we have a strict anti-spam policy because the board has overloaded and crashed before, and whilst I don't doubt that this is fun for a short while it is ultimately fairly pointless and also makes holding a discussion impossible due to screen stretch. Hence my computer crying right now. Tally ho, all 
|
|
|
|
|
Nerd-o-rama

Urban Legend
  
|
|
 |
« #95 : 10-07-2005 17:58 »
« : 10-07-2005 17:58 »
|
|
Well, what you have to remember is that a computer thinks of all things, including characters, as numbers. And when a computer "thinks of" a number, i.e. stores it in some form of memory, it stores it in base 2 or binary form.
Let's say you type the letter "A." The computer first looks up its ASCII value, which is sixty-five. It takes the binary form of this number (01000001) and stores it somewhere in whatever memory you're working with (typing it into a word processor, for instance, will store it in virtual memory until you save the file, when it is then written to the hard drive.)
The same goes for putting a number into your windows calculator, except it will store the actual value of the number rather than an ASCII code.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
silver+gold

Crustacean

|
|
 |
« #99 : 10-09-2005 06:38 »
« : 10-09-2005 06:38 »
|
|
the abc 01100001 00001101 00001010 01100010 00001101 00001010 01100011 00001101 00001010 01100100 00001101 00001010 01100101 00001101 00001010 01100110 00001101 00001010 01100111 00001101 00001010 01101000 00001101 00001010 01101001 00001101 00001010 01101010 00001101 00001010 01101011 00001101 00001010 01101100 00001101 00001010 01101101 00001101 00001010 01101110 00001101 00001010 01101111 00001101 00001010 01110000 00001101 00001010 01110001 00001101 00001010 01110010 00001101 00001010 01110011 00001101 00001010 01110100 00001101 00001010 01110101 00001101 00001010 01110110 00001101 00001010 01110111 00001101 00001010 01111000 00001101 00001010 01111001 00001101 00001010 01111010 . the 123 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110010 00001101 00001010 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110100 00001101 00001010 00110101 00001101 00001010 00110110 00001101 00001010 00110111 00001101 00001010 00111000 00001101 00001010 00111001 00001101 00001010 00110000 egnore the 00001101's
|
|
|
|
|
|
|