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Binary codes suck

22 replies · 4,679 views · Started 05 February 2007

BHLC 05 Feb 2007, 01:34

There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.

BHLC is available for Birthdays, Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.

I'll get me coat.

SpeTz 05 Feb 2007, 01:58

lol but this is annoying the teacher gives us assigments on the first day of the semester
Edit: Eureka i think i understand some of it 😊

knuckleskin 05 Feb 2007, 10:28

I'm a Computer Systems and Networking student and have had to learn Binary to pass a certain module on my course. I have kind of always had a fundemental understanding of binary.

Some people know that you can count up to 31 on just one hand, or 2047 on 2 hands. What most people don't realise is that its easier if you use Grey code.

Like most things it's just about practice, wait til you get to Octs and Hex, then you will wish you knew binary well!

Cash 05 Feb 2007, 11:36

knuckleskin wrote:I'm a Computer Systems and Networking student and have had to learn Binary to pass a certain module on my course. I have kind of always had a fundemental understanding of binary.

Some people know that you can count up to 31 on just one hand, or 2047 on 2 hands. What most people don't realise is that its easier if you use Grey code.

Like most things it's just about practice, wait til you get to Octs and Hex, then you will wish you knew binary well!

I just use a calculator 😊..:turtle: :turtle:

Have a go at this

01100011 01100001 01110011 01101000 (can you tell what it is yet )

knuckleskin 05 Feb 2007, 12:48

Heheh, in ASCII that would say cash. What you really want is 01000011 for the first letter so that it is Cash :tongue:

Like you say, you can also use a calculator, or in Windows, Calc
Win Key + r > calc > ok
then when it's loaded
view > scientific

Then use the Dec, and Bin radio buttons to switch numbers from Decimal to Binary, or back.

SpeTz 05 Feb 2007, 20:28

knuckleskin what modules were you learning? Im up to cisco module 1 and it just has a overview of it but i do understand some of the binaries now😊

Cash 05 Feb 2007, 20:43

knuckleskin wrote:Heheh, in ASCII that would say cash. What you really want is 01000011 for the first letter so that it is Cash :tongue:

Like you say, you can also use a calculator, or in Windows, Calc
Win Key + r > calc > ok
then when it's loaded
view > scientific

Then use the Dec, and Bin radio buttons to switch numbers from Decimal to Binary, or back.

Damn those capital letters 😊..

dergal 05 Feb 2007, 20:59

OK - I did maths / computers a few years ago and frankly I forgot most things ... but I have never ever figured out the point of binary in real life ... that said I would quite like one of those clocks ... despite the geekyness of them ... in fact I am sure theres probably one for the phone as a screensaver (off topic, fring worked for me)

Cash 05 Feb 2007, 21:10

dergal wrote:OK - I did maths / computers a few years ago and frankly I forgot most things ... but I have never ever figured out the point of binary in real life ... that said I would quite like one of those clocks ... despite the geekyness of them ... in fact I am sure theres probably one for the phone as a screensaver (off topic, fring worked for me)

I have a binary clock on my phone 😊..

dchky 06 Feb 2007, 12:55

Reading things off in binary is pretty useful, particularly in the communications field. If you raster a binary stream or data chunk in visual form you'll understand why - Imagine a black pixel representing a 1, and white a 0 (or the other way round, doesn't matter). An example might be a multiplexer, if you raster it at varying widths, eventually you'll come across its frame width and you'll see a nice little sync pattern running down your display. Handy for identification of unknown data streams. Think of bar codes if you can't picture what I mean.

Encryption, shift registers, error correction, signalling codes, RADAR... Perhaps to state the obvious (forgive me), there are millions of systems (not just computers) that use binary, mathmatics is a far more interesting field outside the school environment.

If you do any network analysis, looking at binary can be helpful - generally it's much easier if you convert to hex first, but one can distinguish patterns after a short while in either format.

BHLC 06 Feb 2007, 19:21

dchky wrote:Reading things off in binary is pretty useful, particularly in the communications field. If you raster a binary stream or data chunk in visual form you'll understand why - Imagine a black pixel representing a 1, and white a 0 (or the other way round, doesn't matter). An example might be a multiplexer, if you raster it at varying widths, eventually you'll come across its frame width and you'll see a nice little sync pattern running down your display. Handy for identification of unknown data streams. Think of bar codes if you can't picture what I mean.......

I lost you at "Reading"

😊

mizan xxx 06 Feb 2007, 20:24

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BHLC wrote:There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.

BHLC is available for Birthdays, Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.

I'll get me coat.

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Tonk3h 08 Feb 2007, 01:03

Cash wrote:I just use a calculator 😊..:turtle: :turtle:

Have a go at this

01100011 01100001 01110011 01101000 (can you tell what it is yet )

101 97 115 104

i think?

kontraband 08 Feb 2007, 10:25

crikey, I go away for a few days and come back to everyone talking binary!!

'01110111011010000110000101110100001000000111010001101000011001010010000001101000
01100101011011000110110000100000011010010111001100100000011010000110000101110000
01110000011001010110111001101001011011100110011100111111'

😉

SpeTz 08 Feb 2007, 21:15

Alright i downloaded some video mentors for cisco and they are in 6 zipped files containing bin files. Do i need to burn the files to a cd?

SpeTz 03 Mar 2007, 02:16

Alright binary is a joke now😊, how would you change a mac adress(08:04:ac:bd and ca:09:bd:f2) to decimal and binary?