Tuesday, October 5, 2010

010 0110 aka 38

Guess what we learned today? Hint: look at the title.

If you guessed binary code, you're right! Today we learned all about base 2 and 7-bit binary codes. It looks something like this:

2^6

2^5

2^4

2^3

2^2

2^1

2^0

Base 10 equivalent

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

3

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

4

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

5

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

6

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

7

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

8

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

127 (largest binary code number)


I thought it was a really cool lesson today. Plus, we finished the glossary! Double win! :D

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