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Binary code is a system of representing text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system: 0 and 1. Each digit (0 or 1) is called a "bit". Groups of 8 bits form a "byte", which can represent 256 different values.
Each character in text is converted to its ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) code, which is a decimal number between 0 and 127. This decimal number is then converted to its binary equivalent. For example, 'A' = ASCII 65 = Binary 01000001.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers. It uses 7-bit binary numbers to represent 128 different characters, including English letters (upper and lower case), digits, punctuation marks, and control characters.
Basic binary conversion uses ASCII which handles standard English characters. For special characters, emojis, and international characters, UTF-8 encoding is used which can represent over 1 million characters using variable-length encoding (1-4 bytes per character).
Binary conversion is essential for: computer programming, data transmission, cryptography, digital electronics, network protocols, file encoding, debugging low-level code, learning computer science fundamentals, and understanding how computers store and process data.
Binary code is typically formatted in groups of 8 bits (1 byte) separated by spaces. For example: "01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111" for "Hello". Some systems also use 4-bit groups or no spaces at all, but 8-bit grouping is most common for text representation.
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