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    Binary Code: Coding Systems

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    Binary code represents text, instructions, or other data using the binary digits 0 and 1. A string of binary digits (bits) can represent a number, letter, or other symbol. In computing, binary codes assign fixed-width or variable-width bit strings to each character. Common binary codes include ASCII, which represents lowercase letters with 7-bit binary strings, and binary-coded decimal, which uses 4-bit groups to represent decimal digits. Binary representation is used widely, such as in CDs where hills and valleys represent binary digits that are then decoded into user-accessible data.

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    Binary code represents text, instructions, or other data using the binary digits 0 and 1. A string of binary digits (bits) can represent a number, letter, or other symbol. In computing, binary codes assign fixed-width or variable-width bit strings to each character. Common binary codes include ASCII, which represents lowercase letters with 7-bit binary strings, and binary-coded decimal, which uses 4-bit groups to represent decimal digits. Binary representation is used widely, such as in CDs where hills and valleys represent binary digits that are then decoded into user-accessible data.

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    Binary code represents text, instructions, or other data using the binary digits 0 and 1. A string of binary digits (bits) can represent a number, letter, or other symbol. In computing, binary codes assign fixed-width or variable-width bit strings to each character. Common binary codes include ASCII, which represents lowercase letters with 7-bit binary strings, and binary-coded decimal, which uses 4-bit groups to represent decimal digits. Binary representation is used widely, such as in CDs where hills and valleys represent binary digits that are then decoded into user-accessible data.

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    Binary code

    A binary code represents text or computer processor instructions using


    the binary number system's two binary digits, 0 and 1. The binary code
    assigns a bit string to each symbol or instruction. For example, a
    binary string of eight binary digits (bits) can represent any of 256
    possible values and can therefore correspond to a variety of different
    symbols, letters or instructions.
    In computing and telecommunications, binary codes are used for various
    methods of encoding data, such as character strings, into bit strings.
    Those methods may use fixed-width or variable-width strings. In a fixed-
    width binary code, each letter, digit, or other character is represented by
    a bit string of the same length; that bit string, interpreted as a binary
    number, is usually displayed in code tables
    inoctal, decimal or hexadecimal notation. There are many character
    sets and many character encodings for them.
    A bit string, interpreted as a binary number, can be translated into a
    decimal number. For example, the lower case a, if represented by the bit
    string 01100001 (as it is in the standard ASCII code), can also be
    represented as the decimal number 97

    Coding systems[edit]
    ASCII code[edit]
    The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), uses
    a 7-bit binary code to represent text and other characters within
    computers, communications equipment, and other devices. Each letter
    or symbol is assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, lowercase
    "a" is represented by 1100001 as a bit string (which is 97 in decimal).
    Binary-coded decimal[edit]
    Binary-coded decimal, or BCD, is a binary encoded representation of
    integer values that uses a 4-bit nibble to encode decimal digits. Four
    binary bits can encode up to 16 distinct values; but, in BCD-encoded
    numbers, only the first ten values in each nibble are legal, and encode
    the decimal digits zero, through nine. The remaining six values are
    illegal, and may cause either a machine exception or unspecified
    behavior, depending on the computer implementation of BCD arithmetic.
    BCD arithmetic is sometimes preferred to floating-point numeric formats
    in commercial and financial applications where the complex rounding
    behaviors of floating-point numbers is inappropriate. [16]

    Current uses of binary[edit]


    Many things besides computers use binary, such as CDs, which have a
    series of hills and valleys on the surface. These either reflect the light of
    the thin laser beam shone on them, representing a one, or do not,
    representing a zero. However these hills and valleys do not directly
    represent user-accessible data bits. This media-level signal is decoded
    into 14 bit words that are further decoded into 8 bit bytes of user data by
    a lookup table (audio data goes through Reed-Solomon decoding after
    this step). The 8-to-14 encoding (run-length limited) is done to prevent
    long runs of 1's or 0's at media level so that the signal won't be
    susceptible to sync drift and dropouts

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