A riddle.
Posted:
Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:21 amby Conner
The population of the world can be divided in to 10 categorys, those who understand binary and those who don't.
See if you can solve this one.
Conner.
Re: A riddle.
Posted:
Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:11 amby Wing Nut
Male and female. Binary is base two, so are humans...
The above is not a serious attempt to solve this riddle. Any attempt to take the above seriously will result in severe penilization.
Re: A riddle.
Posted:
Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:15 amby Conner
Not quite right. There are only two answers, Yes I understand of No I dont understand binary, Hence 1 or 0 being put together to make 10
Connor.
Re: A riddle.
Posted:
Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:42 pmby stormy
Re: A riddle.
Posted:
Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:05 amby Wing Nut
OK, I will give this a shot...
As far as you or I for FS purposes go, the only thing we'll ever need to worry about with binary is 1=yes, 2=no when you alter your config file.
As far as programming languages go (and I'm still new, so please correct me) it is a matter of base 2. We humans count with base 10 numbers; that is, 0123456789. Binary however, is base 2; 0 and 1. This also means that each number is double what the previous number is. The first eight numbers in base 2 are 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 Signals are interpreted by your computer as electrical impulse that are either on or off. 1 is on, 0 is off. So in order to convert that to a language, the base is changed and you have to come up with a new way to represent numbers.
To do so, you count which place is the number. The number 4586 has a number 4 in the thousands place, a 5 in the hundreths place, a 8 in the tenths place and a 6 in the ones place.
To translate binary, you simply take the place it is times the number, add as you go along and you are set. For instance, in 1101 it would be 1 (the number 1 in 1101) * 1 (the place it is in base two) + 0 (the number 0 in 1101) * 2 (the place it is in base two) and so on. The whole equation looks like (1*1)+(0*2)+(4*1)+(8*1) = 13. so the number 1101 in binary translates to 13.
Clear as mud? :)
Kevin
Re: A riddle.
Posted:
Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:34 amby stormy
