Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Computing Language basic concepts

Bit: Information that is expressed as the numbers 0 or 1 in binary form, and a form of memory. 8 Bits = 1 Byte or 1 Bit = 0.125 Bytes.

Byte: A group of bits (binary digits), 8 characters because 8 bits = 1 byte that operate in one unit, and a bigger form of memory.

Binary: A language that contains only two digits that include 0 and 1. This is the basic computing language that only a computer would be able to understand. An example can be the number 331, in binary language it is 001100110011001100110001

Denary/Decimal: A numeral language that has a base of 10, which includes digits from (0-9). This is normal type of digits that we use as a base to convert into binary hexadecimal or octal.

Hexadecimal: A numeral language that has a base of 16, which includes digits from (0-F). This language includes the alphabetical letters that continues on from 10-16. An example could be 331 which is 14B in hexadecimal.

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