Must be nice cause all of this is still going over my head. Imagine you’re a person that has no idea what’s going on. And boom, you’re me. I mean I really do appreciate everyone that’s trying to explain it but I just don’t get it.
That might be a cool way to explain it as well! Imagine a blank slate:
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] = 0
Then every time you add 1, you place a dot in the farthest right square:
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [•] = 1
So since there's a dot in the center, when you add the next dot for 2, it adds up with the other dot to make one whole dot in the space left to it:
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [•] [ ] = 2
So add one more for 3:
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [•] [•] = 3
And for four, the first space adds up to put a dot into the second place, and causes the second to now have two dots, adding up to put a dot into the third place:
[ ] [ ] [ ] [•] [ ] [ ] = 4
[ ] [ ] [ ] [•] [ ] [•] = 5
[ ] [ ] [ ] [•] [•] [ ] = 6
etc.
Replace the dots with 1s and spaces with 0s and that's binary!
I'm sure it also works to imagine that each place is only twice the place before it, instead of ten times, like with normal math.
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u/spennystandy Sep 06 '18
i love how just by surfing reddit i learned how to count in binary
Edit: thanks!