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In mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, which uses only two symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one). The base-2 numeral system is a positional notation with a radix of 2. Each digit is referred to as a bit.
An easy method of converting decimal to binary number equivalents is to write down the decimal number and to continually divide-by-2 (two) to give a result and a remainder of either a “1” or a “0” until the final result equals zero. So for example. Convert the decimal number 29410 into its binary number equivalent.
Binary numbers use the same rules as decimal - the value of any digit always depends on its position in the whole number. It all gets down to bases. Decimal uses base ten, so that every time a number moves one position to the left in a figure, it increases by a power of ten (eg. 1, 10, 100 etc).
Binary is a base 2 number system invented by Gottfried Leibniz that is made up of only two numbers: 0 and 1. This number system is the basis for all binary code, which is used to write data such as the instructions that computer processors use, or the digital text you read every day.