May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
16h 38m
English
Decimal System: We use the decimal system in our daily lives. The allowable digits in decimal system are:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. The base is 10. The lowest number = 0 ; the highest number = 9. The counting goes 0...99, 100 and so on.
Binary System: The computer uses the binary system for its internal representation. The digits allowed are: 0 1. The base is 2. The lowest number = 0 ; the highest number = 1. The counting goes: 0 1 10 11 100 101 110 111 1000... The count is shown in Table B.1.
Table B.l Decimal numbers and their binary equivalents

Computer uses two other representations, namely Octal and ...