Way before that, in 1949, Grace Hopper programmed the Binac (Binary Automatic Computer) at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. using octal code.

How Does Binary Code Work? A bit is a basic unit in binary, short for binary digit. In simpler terms, it’s a digit or symbol that represents one of two states: 0 or 1. Two bits can represent 4 ...

The video walks you through the essentials here, how binary represents decimal, how that’s represented in hexadecimal, and why exactly computers need all that to begin with.

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero ...