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by binary you'll find it a bit useful uncle All

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right what is twenty three Base Ten in based who

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And hear your potential answers So looks like we're being

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asked to convert the base ten number twenty three into

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base to also known as binary while all major modern

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civilizations used base ten numeral system and for good reason

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Over tens of thousands of years we've come to realise

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that ten fingers are really easy to countless when dealing

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with a number higher than ten you just roll over

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into a new set of ten it's about a simple

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is it gets for us computers though think in terms

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of off and on zero and one well that's all

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well and good for counting up to zero in one

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but we're two larger numbers come from and how are

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they stored in a computer's memory Will the answer their

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lives in using lots of zeros and ones zero or

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one in memory is of idiot and with just eight

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bits that are known as one bite you can count

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all the way from zero to two hundred fifty five

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each bit represents a different amount so starting from the

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right side the first bit represents one If that first

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bid is on or one we have a total value

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in our bite of one The next bit over represents

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two but here's where it begins to get oh so

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clever bit after that represents four and the one after

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that ate and after that sixteen and so on using

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the power says too by flipping each differently valued bid

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on or off we can count all the way up

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to two hundred fifty five just add up which bits

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are on and there's your number so this for example

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is one hundred sixty seven right here and here's a

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forty eight and here is two hundred anyway let's count

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twenty three way already know that the fifth bit represent

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sixteen so we'll turn that one on remember binary goes

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from right to left How about the fourth bit representing

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eight right here Eight plus sixteen would leave twenty for

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which is over our target of twenty three so we'll

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leave the fourth bidden as zero The third bit four

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plus sixteen is twenty so yea progress second bit is

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to turn our twenty two and the first bit is

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one so turned that toe one and now when we

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add it all up where twenty three or zero zero

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zero one zero one one one in base too trailing

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zeros can be left off and we're left with one

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zero one one one that's Answer eh Well that was 00:02:51.25 --> [endTime] easy actually Quite difficult No

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