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Stair Way to Computing - 10
The binary stuff
Computers only understand powers of two
You'll see these numbers a lot:
K1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256
EVERYTHING that a computer can do gets translated to binary
This has wierd side effects (4 is not '4')
© Andy Harris
Indiana University / Purdue University, Indianapolis
email:
aharris@klingon.cs.iupui.edu
homepage: www.cs.iupui.edu/~aharris