Inside Computers: An In Depth Guide

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General Information

Numbers

We all know and love decimals. Decimals run on a base 10 system. There are 10 numbers in each unit holder. Computers operate on binary signals, 0's for off, and 1's for on. This is base 2, because each column has 2 possible values. For large numbers, binary can get hard to read so low level computer language is presented in Hexadecimal. Hexadecimal is base 16 because each column contains 16 different possible values. There are the 10 values, 0 through 9, and the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F.

11087223 decimal is converted to hexadecimal

hex is separated into pairs

10101001 00101101 01110111 converted to binary bytes (8-bits)

101010010010110101110111 1's 0's that the computer understands

Base	Decimal		Binary		Binary (Bytes)	Hexadecimal
Base		10		2	2		16
Numbers		0		0	00000000		0
		1		1	00000001		1
		2		10	00000010		2
		3		11	00000011		3
		4		100	00000100		4
		5		101	00000101		5
		6		110	00000110		6
		7		111	00000111		7
		8		1000	00001000		8
		9		1001	00001001		9
		10		1010	00001010		A
		11		1011	00001011		B
		12		1100	00001100		C
		13		1101	00001101		D
		14		1110	00001110		E
		15		1111	00001111		F
		16		10000	00010000		10
		17		10001	00010001		11
		18		10010	00010010		12
		...		...	...		...
		252		11111100	11111100		FC
		253		11111101	11111101		FD
		254		11111110	11111110		FE
		255		11111111	11111111		FF

Decimal Name	Abbr.	Power	Decimal Value	Binary Value
Byte	B	10⁰	1	1
Kilobyte	kB	10³	1 000	1 024
Megabyte	MB	10⁶	1 000 000	1 048 576
Gigabyte	GB	10⁹	1 000 000 000	1 073741 824
Terabyte	TB	10¹²	1 000 000 000 000	1 099 511 627 776

Bits and Bytes | ASCII