
1.2 Practice Activity:Displaying System Configuration 9
Every machine on the Internet has a unique ID, called its IP address (IP
stands for Internet Protocol). A computer can have a static IP address,
which is dedicated to that machine, or a dynamic IP address, which is
assigned to the computer when it connects to the Internet. An IP address is
made up of four octets, whose values in decimal notation are between 0
and 255. For instance, 58.203.151.103 could represent such an IP address.
In binary notation, this IP address is 111010.11001011.10010111.1100111.
Later in this chapter, we will learn how to convert a decimal number, such
as 103, to its binar ...