Numbering Systems
Get introduced to various numbering systems in this lesson.
The systemic methods which, are used to represent numbers, are known as numbering systems. We have the following numbering systems:
- Binary
- Octal
- Decimal
- Hexadecimal
The binary number system
A machine can only understand two states: ON
(represented by 1) and OFF
(represented by 0). This effectively means that any input given to the computer must be in the form of 0
and 1’s
. The binary number system uses two digits, 0
and 1
, to represent a number. Since it has only two digits, the base of the binary number system is 2
.
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