A worksheet activity adding binary numbers and conversions to denary. Starts with 4 bits (nibble) and moves on to 8 bits (byte) additions. There is also an accompanying answer sheet. The activity also ...

Let's focus on the "places" of binary numbersIn the decimal system we use every day, starting from the right, there are the ...

Full lesson - Introduction to representing negative numbers in binary. This lesson recaps binary representation and then introduces negative numbers. To aid understanding of two’s complement, binary ...

Last time, we learned why computers use 0s and 1s.Inside a computer, various types of information are handled by mapping two ...

In Part 1 of this mini-mega-series, we introduced the concepts of integers, signed integers, and unsigned integers (we also touched on positive integers, non-negative integers, counting numbers, and ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.