Binary & Base Converter

Binary is a base-2 number system that uses only two symbols: 0 (zero) and 1 (one). It is the fundamental language of computers, where 0 represents "off" and 1 represents "on".

Text to Binary: Computers store text as numbers. Using ASCII or Unicode standards, each character is assigned a unique number. For example, the letter 'A' is 65 in decimal, which is `01000001` in 8-bit binary.

Number Systems: We commonly use Decimal (base-10). Hexadecimal (base-16) is often used in programming because it's a compact way to represent binary data. Octal (base-8) uses digits 0-7 and is historically significant in computing.