Most modern computer systems (including the IBM PC) operate using binary logic. The computer represents values using two voltage levels (usually 0V for logic 0 and either +3.3 V or +5V for logic 1). With two levels we can represent exactly two different values. These could be any two different values, but by convention we use the values zero and one. These two values, coincidentally, correspond to the two digits used by the binary number system.
Since there is a correspondence between the logic levels used by the computer and the two digits used in the binary numbering system, it should come as no surprise that computers employ the binary system. The binary number system works like the decimal number system except the Binary Number System:
uses base 2
includes only the digits 0 and 1 (any other digit would make the number an invalid binary number)
The weighted values for each position is determined as follows:
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In the United States among other countries, every three decimal digits is separated with a comma to make larger numbers easier...
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