Binary Representation
Computers internally represent numbers in binary form
- The sequence of binary digits
- Represents the decimal number which is the sum of terms 2i for each di = 1.
- Eg, 10111two = 16ten+4ten+2ten+1ten = 23ten
- d0 is called the ‘least significant bit’ LSB
- dn-1 is called the ‘most significant bit’ MSB