Boy's Quest, October 1st, 2007
When you push a button on a calculator, how does it get the answer? When you surf the internet, what makes the web pages appear? When you're fighting the bad guys in your video games, how does the game controller know what you want to do? Binary numbers are the answer. All computer code, from the simplest digital calculator to the complex programs that run the NASA space shuttle, use binary numbers.
While decimal numbers use numbers 0 through 9, binary numbers only use 0 and 1. Look at the example. Both represent the number seven.
Decimal Binary 7 111
Here's another example. Both of th...
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