[Blindmath] binary basics

Fri Mar 20 17:29:01 UTC 2015

Yes.

Bill

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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jorge
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] binary basics

OK, so let's see if I'm right.
Taking the 10 from the joke, you're saying it'd be 0b10 in proper binary
notation?

On 3/20/15, Paul Chapin via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 0b is the standard way for programmers to designate that the number 
> than follows is binary in the same way the 0x indicates the number is 
> hexadecimal.
>
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary 
> and those who don't. (Sorry, it's an old joke but it shows the 
> potential for confusion without the leading 0b).
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> Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 11:32 AM
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> Thanks everyone.
> Awesome post by the way Tyler , very helpful.
> For those of you who wrote binary notation in your message though, 
> what's the B supposed to represent?
> Is that what you use instead of the exponent symbol?
>
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> On 3/20/15, derek riemer via Blindmath 
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
> As well, Adding, subtracting, ... is the same. We carry the 1 if adding.
>
> 2+2
>
> 0b10 + 0b10
>
> 10
> 10
> --------
> 100
> What I did there is 1+1 is 10 in binary, or 2 in base 10. The 0 gets 
> dropped in the 2's place, and the 1 gets carried. Then we add it to 
> whatever is in the 4's place, and there you go.
> In most real world places, you would convert the binary to hex, and 
> use that for addition, because it is simply easier.
>
> On 3/20/2015 8:42 AM, Littlefield, Tyler via Blindmath wrote:
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> Here you go, I wrote this a while back.
> https://tysdomain.com/blog/?p=133
> On 3/20/2015 10:37 AM, Bill Dengler (Windows 7 on Retina macBook Pro) 
> via Blindmath wrote:
> I'll write a quick intro : Binary is the base 2 number system, so it's 
> place values are powers of 2. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 
> 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, etc. To represent a 
> number in binary, you must represent it using 1 and the powers of 2. 
> If a number has a power, insert a 1, if not 0. For example : 1
> 0b1 2 0b10 (2+0) 3 0b11 (2+1) 4 0b100 (4+0 twos+0 ones) 7 0b111
> (4+2+1) 9 0b1001 (8+0 fours+0 twos+1) If you need more clarification 
> please email. Thanks, Bill. -----Original
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> Hi all: I was wondering if anyone knew of a book that I could get on 
> bookshare that would be a good introduction to binary numbers?
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