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Binary code represents data using a two-symbol system, typically 0 and 1. It assigns a pattern of binary digits (bits) to each character or instruction. In computing, binary codes are used to encode character strings into bit strings of fixed or variable widths. The modern binary number system and binary code were invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1689 and use 0 and 1, with Leibniz noting the correspondence between binary numbers and I Ching hexagrams.

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Binary

Binary code represents data using a two-symbol system, typically 0 and 1. It assigns a pattern of binary digits (bits) to each character or instruction. In computing, binary codes are used to encode character strings into bit strings of fixed or variable widths. The modern binary number system and binary code were invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1689 and use 0 and 1, with Leibniz noting the correspondence between binary numbers and I Ching hexagrams.

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Binary Code

01001000 01100101 01101100 0110110 0110111


A binary code represents text, computer processor
instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system.
The two-symbol system used is often "0" and "1" from
the binary number system. The binary code assigns a
pattern of binary digits, also known as bits, to each
character, instruction, etc.
In computing and telecommunications, binary codes are used
for various methods of encoding data, such as character strings,
into bit strings. Those methods may use fixed-width or variable-
width strings. In a fixed-width binary code, each letter, digit, or
other character is represented by a bit string of the same
length; that bit string, interpreted as a binary number, is usually
displayed in code tables in octal, decimal or hexadecimal
notation. There are many character sets and many character
encodings for them.
The modern binary number system, the basis for binary code,
was invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1689 and appears in his
article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire. The full title is
translated into English as the "Explanation of the binary
arithmetic", which uses only the characters 1 and 0, with some
remarks on its usefulness, and on the light it throws on the
ancient Chinese figures of Fu Xi." (1703). Leibniz's system uses 0
and 1, like the modern binary numeral system. Leibniz
encountered the I Ching through French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet
and noted with fascination how its hexagrams correspond to
the binary numbers from 0 to 111111, and concluded that this
mapping was evidence of major Chinese accomplishments in
the sort of philosophical mathematics he admired. Leibniz saw
the hexagrams as an affirmation of the universality of his own
religious belief.

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