{"id":465,"date":"2023-12-28T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:07:49","slug":"why-computers-use-binary-number-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/why-computers-use-binary-number-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Computers Use Binary Number System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Computers use binary number systems because they allow computers to store and process data most simply and efficiently using just transistors and electronic switches that have two states &#8211; <strong>ON and OFF<\/strong>. This makes binary the best numeric system for computer hardware and software architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the decimal number system which has 10 digits from 0 to 9, the binary system has only two digits &#8211; 0 and 1. This perfectly aligns with the two states of a transistor or switch in a computer. ON represents 1 and OFF represents 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representing data in binary format allows computers to encode large amounts of data as sequences of binary digits or bits. A computer processor can perform fast logical and arithmetic operations on these bit patterns. It is much simpler for a processor to differentiate between two states rather than ten states in decimal or more in other number systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers use binary number systems because they allow computers to store and process data most simply and efficiently using just transistors and electronic switches that have two states &#8211; ON and OFF. This makes binary the best numeric system for computer hardware and software architecture. Unlike the decimal number system which has 10 digits from &#8230; <a title=\"Why Computers Use Binary Number System\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/why-computers-use-binary-number-system\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Computers Use Binary Number System\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qna","tag-question-answer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatecomputer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}