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The need to learn the conversion techniques between decimal and binary systems is mainly because humans usually give input to computers in decimal numbers, because that’s how the human world mainly operates, and while returning the computational result back to the human, computers need to make the output understandable for humans. But as far as computers are concerned, there is only a binary world. Hence the need for a system of conversion between decimal and binary. When it comes to numbers, there are two things computers need to do: represent them in binary, and then equally importantly, computers need to be able to perform arithmetic operations on those binary representations. Speaking of the ...