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The numerical sequence you just read above means, believe me, “Weird World” in binary.
This system is used by machines with digital circuits to interpret information and perform actions. It is through this language that the computer displays and processes texts, numbers and images, for example. “The computer does not interpret letters and digits, as humans do. It only reads electrical signals in their simplest form: with or without current, represented respectively by the numbers 0 and 1”, explains software engineer Eugeni Dodonov.
That is, all commands and data processed by the equipment are formed by sequences of these digits. Pure white on the screen, for example, is equivalent to 11111111 in binary code and the number 8, for the computer, is 1000. The first binary count that is recorded is from the 3rd century BC, made by an Indian mathematician. Since then, the system has never ceased to be studied, but it was only in 1937 that it was used for the first time, in the way we see it today, in digital circuits.
THE WEIGHT OF INFORMATION
Binary numbers indicate data capacity
In computing, a binary digit (0 or 1) is equivalent to 1 bit, the smallest unit of information. Eight binary digits form 1 byte. A gigabyte is made up of over 8.5 billion zeros and ones.
ONE BIT = 0 or 1
ONE BYTE = 01010101
ONE GIGABYTE = 0101… (+ 8.5 billion zeros and ones)
CONSULTANCY Eugeni Dodonov, Software Engineer at Intel
SOURCES portaldoprofessor.mec.gov.br and tecmundo.com.br
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