Computing Language Binary?

Question

is everything on a computer converted to 0 and 1??? even images and sound??? i know text is but i don't really understand what binary is. please help. thanks guys

Answer 1

There are 10 kinds of people in this world...

Answer 2

Yes, all things are stored as either on or off in one form or another. Either the on-off of a transistor, the positive or negative magnetic field on a disk-drive, or the on-off pixels on a monochrome monitor. Usually, these are given more humanistic values of one or zero which we can use with our mathematics. In fact, the digital CD refers to the counting on digits (fingers) and is integral in nature (i.e. 0, 1, 2,...). The need for binary (two possible digits) is necessary for executing Boolean logic which is the basis of our computing systems today. There are other computers which use other schemes, but they are very expensive and not widely used.

Answer 3

The origin of binary and the basic idea behind binary is to represent the status ON by 1 and OFF by 0, a combination of a series of zeros and ones makes some sense to the computer, all the instructions are basically built based on a predefined pattern of zeros and ones which the computer recogonizes and acts accordingly.

Its not an issue that you don understand binary.. coz human beings are not xpected to understand binary ;)

Answer 4

Binary language is a language which consist of 0 and 1.

Every input is converted into binary language 1st than input is processed and than converted into middle or high level language(in which input was given) to provide output to the user (as computer does not understands middle or high level language).

For example if you enter 2 numbers to find their sum computer will 1st convert those numbers in form of 0 and 1 than find sum of them. It will now convert that sum into high level language.