Irene

[Mystes]

Title should say it. Guys, be careful on the East Coast.

Here's a link to the hurricane's progression planned. If it reaches NY, then it would be a disaster.

EDIT: Sticking topic for 4 days.

[ainsoph9]

It strikes me as odd that they just had an earthquake and now a hurricane.

[Mystes]

...2012?

[hobogunner]

Well, on the other side of the world, Japan had an earthquake then another earthquake. Mother Nature sure isn't giving us a break this year, I can tell you that.

[Mystes]

Hopefully, Yellowstone won't erupt.

[ainsoph9]

Yogi!!! Wait, wrong park...

[b0mb3r]

Guys if I don't make it this weekend I just want to say make a digital grave for me. BYE!

[Mystes]

Guys if I don't make it this weekend I just want to say make a digital grave for me. BYE!

Don't joke with that. Seriously.

[ainsoph9]

Guys if I don't make it this weekend I just want to say make a digital grave for me. BYE!

Using positive logic, here it is: 0. If you did not understand that, then you must understand that there 10 kinds of people who know binary: those who do and those who do not.

[hobogunner]

Really? Why that binary joke in a hurricane thread? -11111111 points.

[ainsoph9]

He asked for a "digital grave." I gave him one with poor humor.

[Mystes]

What's binary?

[hobogunner]

It's a number system. We generally use base 10, which uses 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 to build numbers off of, binary uses only 1, 0.

[ainsoph9]

What's binary?

You know the 1's and 0's that your computer runs on? That is binary. Think of it this way. We normally write numbers and think of them as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10... However, one can think of that as shorthand for {a,b,c,...} = a number multiplied by 10 to some power of x. So, it would look like this in series form: a*10^x + b*10^(x-1) + c*10^(x-2) + ... So, 9 is really 9*10^0 for single digits, and 53 is 5*10^1 + 3*10^0 multiple digits. (If you do the math for simplification, you should get 53.) Likewise, we can change the base, which, in the previous example, was 10. If we change that to 2, we are left with only 2 numbers that are valid for n: 0 and 1. So, to express numbers, we have to make the formula look like a*2^x + b*2^(x-1) + c*2^(x-2) + ... So, for binary or numbers that use 2 as their base, you have for 2 the expression 1*2^1 + 0*2^0 = 10, or for 15 the expression 1*2^3 + 1*2^2 + 1*2^1 + 1*2^0 = 1111. Basically, to do this and convert back and forth, you need to be good with exponents and some multiplication and division. It is not too hard, but it takes some thought and patience.

[hobogunner]

Really, all you have to do is make a chart of every power of 2, and excluding 0, you can get 1 through infinity by doing this. Such as 3 would be 11. Just look it up. Don't even bother with A-kun's math speak. It's really not needed to understand binary. That's more of a "Let's understand any number system." speech.

The easiest way to convert binary is to count from the left over, starting with 0, and say you have 10000000, the 1 is in the seventh space, so that equals 2^7. And then you just do that for every 1, add it all together and that's what it equals. OR if you have like 11111111, or an octet of 1's, simply find out 100000000, then subtract 1. So, that would be 128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1 or 255. or 256-1 which is 255 also. There are weird principals back and forth, and I doubt you'll ever need to know any of them.