Binary for Programmers

Let us run through a basic guide for programmers

I’ve seen many presumptions and assumptions that programmers not only know Binary, but can easily convert betweenDenary and Binary and even perform some Binary mathematical operations.

This Medium post represents the missing guide that we need to help us not only understand Binary andDenary, but be in a position to build upon that knowledge when we implement Binary operations in our chosen programming language.

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

Prerequisites:

• None, but for practical purposes it would be useful to be able to produce a “Hello, World!” application in your chosen programming language

Terminology

Base number system: A term that means roughly the same as “Number bases”

Binary: The name of the base 2 number system

Decimal: The system for denoting Integer and Non-Integer numbers

Denary: The name of the base 10 numbering system

Hundred: The number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100

Integer: A number that has no fractional part, that is no digits after the decimal point

Number bases: The number of different digits that a system of counting uses