Question

Digital information is stored using a series of ones and zeros. Computers are digital machines because they can only read information as on or off –1 or 0. This method of computation is known as the ____________ system

Answer 1

This is the binary system. Numbers are easily translated from binary simply by each binary number in a bit of information has an exponential value. You can translate binary to words because each set of 8 0s and 1s can be translated into numbers which are labeled in a system called asscii. For each number there is a charecter or symbol associated. for example:0000 0011 would translate to 3 and in asscii that 3 would translate into a G. therefore 00000011 would be translated twice by the computer if you hit the g key on your keyboard until a G was displayed on your screen.