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#1 2002-12-24 11:46 pm
- indycompuser13
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Binary Code Question!:)
Hello Everybody!!
First off, Happy Holidays and have a wonderful new year!! O.k. my question is this: I heard that each letter you press on the keyboard, sends a message to the computer in binary code (0s and 1s). Is this true? And if so, where might I find a list of each letter in its binary form? I see a future of secret codes that none of my friends will understand!! 
Thank you all,
Indy
"No artist is ahead of his time, He is his time; it is just the others are behind the time"
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#3 2002-12-25 12:23 am
Re: Binary Code Question!:)
0101100101101111011101010010000001101101011101010111001101110100001000000111001001100101011000010110110001101100011110010010000000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000110110001101111011101100110010100001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000110110111101100011011010110010111000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010
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#4 2002-12-25 12:38 am
Re: Binary Code Question!:)
Code:
0100110101100101011100100111001001111001001000000100001101101000011100100110100101110011011101000110110101100001011100110010000001100101011101100110010101110010011110010110111101101110011001010010000100001101000010100000110100001010010010000110110100101110001011100010000001001001001000000111011101101111011011100110010001100101011100100010000001101000011011110111011100100000011011010110000101101110011110010010000001101111011101000110100001100101011100100010000001110000011001010110111101110000011011000110010100100000011000010110110001110010011001010110000101100100011110010010000001110000011011110111001101110100011001010110010000100000011101000110100001100001011101000010111000100000001000000100100100100000011100110110100001101111011101010110110001100100001000000111000001110010011011110110001001100001011000100110110001111001001000000110001101101000011001010110001101101011001000000110011001101001011100100111001101110100001011100010000000100000010000010110100000100000011101110110010101101100011011000010110000100000010010010010011101101101001000000110110001100001011110100111100100101110
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#5 2002-12-25 12:39 am
Re: Binary Code Question!:)
0100101001101001011011000110110000100111011100110010000001100001001000000110001001101001011101000110001101101000
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#6 2002-12-25 1:20 am
Re: Binary Code Question!:)
Well, the binary isn't exactly sent to your computer from the keyboard. More than likely, ASCII is sent to your computer. Binary can't actually represent anything but numbers. So in order for it to represent letters, those letters must have a number counterpart. This is called ASCII. For instance, a capital "A" is represented by a 65 or (from right to left) "01000001" In all actuality, there is nothing above 127 in ASCII so only 7 bits are needed. That "0" at the end is a place-holder. If you don't know how to read binary, it is quite easy. Now remember, this is from right to left, not left to right. The first digit represents 2^0, the second 2^1, and so on. If there is a 1, that means that that value is true and you add all the "trues" together. So "11111111" would be 1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128 and "01111111" would be 1+2+4+8+16+32+64. Now to impress your friends, learn to count in binary on your hands! You can count to 1023 on 10 fingers (my favorite is 4 and 132 with your right thumb being the first digit). Hehe . Also, "decode" my sig without the help of that site (Hint: "00100000" is a space). Hoped that helped. If you have any specific questions, my email is zacw@cox.net. Feel free to email me.
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#7 2002-12-25 1:37 am
Re: Binary Code Question!:)
0101100101101111011101010010000001101101011101010111001101110100001000000111001001100101011000010110110001101100011110010010000000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000110110001101111011101100110010100001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000110110111101100011011010110010111000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010000011010000101000001101000010100000110100001010
haha.
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#8 2002-12-25 2:13 am
- indycompuser13
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Re: Binary Code Question!:)
Thank you all very much!! Zacwhite, your explanation made a lot of sense! But thank you for your email, if I get into it more I'm sure I will have more questions!! Happy Holidays to all and good night!! 
"No artist is ahead of his time, He is his time; it is just the others are behind the time"
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