Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming

Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming

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As the old joke goes, “There are 10 types of people, those that understand how binary numbers work and those that don’t.” Let’s get you into the “understand” group.

XKCD 953: 1 to 10

Binary is the type of numbering system that is native to computers. It is base-2. Numbers that normal people work with are called decimal or base-10.

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