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Write Your Name in Binary Code

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001 Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!” Any code that uses just two symbols to represent information is considered binary code. Different versions of binary code have been around for centuries, and have been used […]

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