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The Andromeda Strain
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- In order to hook into the line, one had only to dial the binary of some number.†
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- He reached into his pocket and withdrew his wallet, then fumbled for a moment until he found the card he had been given by the professor: IN CASE OF FIRE Notify Division 87 Emergencies Only He stared at the card and wondered what exactly would happen if he dialed the binary of 87.†
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- He tore a sheet of paper from the pad in front of him, next to the telephone, and wrote: 2° 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 This was the basis of the binary system: base two raised to some power.†
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- 24 25 26 27 © @ ® 8 © 32 @ 128 = 87 And then he drew in the binary code.†
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- Binary numbers were designed for computers which utilize an on-off, yes-no kind of language.†
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- A mathematician once joked that binary numbers were the way people who have only two fingers count.†
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- In essence, binary numbers translated normal numbers—which require ten digits, and decimal places—to a system that depended on only two digits, one and zero.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(binary) consisting of two parts or states
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)