One obvious example is text. A computer can't read the word "hello" like we can, so each character has to have a binary code that represents it. The first character encoding standard for computers ...

Morse code uses long and short signals to transmit information, and the example above uses sets of 0s and 1s to represent letters. Perhaps the most common use for binary nowadays is in computers: ...

This information encoding system is called binary. It's the form of encoding that allows computers to run. Binary uses two states (represented by the digits 0 and 1) to encode information. This ...

Examples of high-level languages include ... computers need to process commands – purely in terms of binary code (1s and 0s). But computers can't work directly with the code created by coders ...