Binary
Binary ABC's of 1's and 0's Prepare to have your perception of reality shattered. Everything you ever thought you knew about something so simple as numbers is going to change. All your life you thought having 100 somethings meant having this many: When, really, it only meant having this many: No, Rod Serling’s not about to cross into the frame, and you haven’t swallowed any red pills . You’ve entered the binary zone and have just encountered base numbering systems. Number Systems and Bases Number systems are the methods we use to represent numbers. Since grade school, we’ve all been mostly operating within the comfy confines of a base-10 number system, but there are many others. Base-2, base-8, base-16, base-20, base...you get the point. There are an infinite variety of base-number systems out there, but only a few are especially important to electrical engineering. The really popular number systems even have their own name. Bas