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Binary Numeral System
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Binary Numeral System
A system in which all letters, numbers, and other characters are saved in a computer as some combination of the digits 0 and 1. This system is used in nearly all modern computing.


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All the segments are then added together using a variant of binary arithmetic that gives a 16-bit result.
 
 
 
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