Department of Computer Scien

ce and Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

HANEL

NUMBERING AND CODING SYSTEMSDecimal and Binary Number Systems

‰Human beings use base 10 (

decimal

)

arithmetic¾There are 10 distinct symbols, 0, 1, 2,

...,

9

‰Computers use base 2 (

binary

) system

¾There are only 0 and 1¾These two binary digits are commonly referred to as

bits