BINARY CODE

The term 'binary code' can mean several different things:

★ There are a variety of different methods of coding numbers or symbols into strings of, including fixed-length binary numbers, prefix codes such as Huffman code, and other arithmetic coding.

★ Made up of only zeros and ones(zeros standing for off and ones standing for on), and used in computers to stand for letters and digits.
For example, computers using western languages often use 8-bit binary codes for characters.
The ISO 8859-1 character code uses 8 bits for one letter e.g. "R" is "01010010" and "b" is "01100010"; the block of 8 bits is called a byte. The ASCII code uses 7 bits to represent 128 characters (0–127).
A 'binary code' can also refer to a linear code over the finite field 'F'₂ = 'Z'/2'Z'.

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★ Unicode

★ Hexadecimal

★ Octal

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Binary Translator
ASCII and binary characters