
Ten Out of Ten
Never let the world tell you you're just a number, but if they do... hell, why care?!
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binary never has more than 2 ones or zeros together.
Erm, I'm pretty sure that's wrong. You're probably thinking of a particular encoding used for transmission or storage of data, where practical issues make that sort of thing useful or necessary, but binary itself is a numerical form just like decimal numbers - there can be as many consecutive equal digits as necessary.
Erm, I'm pretty sure that's wrong. You're probably thinking of a particular encoding used for transmission or storage of data, where practical issues make that sort of thing useful or necessary, but binary itself is a numerical form just like decimal numbers - there can be as many consecutive equal digits as necessary.
You've got it the wrong way around, friend. The electrical pulses, as you describe, are themselves physical representations of a binary encoding of information. "Binary" itself is agnostic of its implementation: it's not limited to electrical signals, you'll find binary numbers encoded in magnetic changes on your hard drive, encoded as optical reflectivity on CDs and DVDs, encoded as light pulses in optical fibers... Binary is a mathematical concept, which happens to be practically very useful for computation tasks.
For example, 1000 is a binary number that equates to 8 in decimal. It has more than 2 zeros in a row, but it's perfectly valid as a binary number.
For example, 1000 is a binary number that equates to 8 in decimal. It has more than 2 zeros in a row, but it's perfectly valid as a binary number.
understandable. i read it it and went "wow, that seems to rather go after the whole 'don't wanna be a number' saying", and so i thought with the reverse thinking, satire...unfortunately that is all for not, i sucked at english class ^^;
but i definitely agree with the change of perspective, and sorry, but i still think its brilliant too :D
but i definitely agree with the change of perspective, and sorry, but i still think its brilliant too :D
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