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When someone says binary

What comes to your mind?

Probably some geeky jerk

Well aren’t those hard to find.

But you see, you will be amazed to know

It isn’t all that geeky

For once you know what it is

You will find it very easy.

Humans have ten fingers on their hands

Well most have ten anyway

And we use these to count and add

Since our very first day.

And thus we base everything on this ten,

That toy, the candy, the pencil and that apple.

For us, this may seem all normal

But in geek, this in fact is called decimal.

Now imagine for a moment

That we had not ten fingers but only two

Now isn’t that a dreadful thought

Thankfully its just hypothetical, it isn’t true.

Lets start by checking

How exactly does decimal work

Don’t worry I will do the talking

For now, I am your Captain Kirk.

For since most of us can remember

We count using the digits 0 to 9

All the numbers even the biggest of them all

Are nothing but 0-9 strung in a twine.

Now lets say we didn’t have 0-9,

And just had 0 and 1 instead

Would we be able to count and add

And write those big big numbers as said?

Now what if I said we could,

I am sure you wouldn’t believe me now

But by the end of this small trip,

Most of you would say, wow.

Lets try counting in the decimal

We go 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 right?

What do we do after 9?

Come on, the answer is within your sight.

Ok let me make that easier for you

By writing it as 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09

How now do we proceed after 09?

I see that you are slowly getting the sign.

We make the first 0 as a 1,

And thereon proceed with the same simple steps

And this way we reach 19 and 20 and the 87

So on till we reach I dunno, a gazillion.

Having this in our pockets

Lets apply the same to write the binary 00 and 01,

What can we write after this,

Could it be a 10 11?

Well yes as one would figure, and you are right there,

And this is exactly how we count in binary

We could reach 1000 1111 1110101 and so on

Ah well now there is nothing else to worry.

Can we represent the same number

In both decimal and binary digit?

Well yes surely we can

And I will just go over the way to do it.

Lets take a number say 10 in decimal,

To reach 10, we counted the 11th number from 0.

Doing the same in binary, we go from 00 01 10 11 100

All the way to 101 110 111 1000 1001 1010.

And there you go, what did we just do,

Did we just count in binary? Oh I think we just did

Didn’t I promise at the very beginning that we would,

I did deliver on that indeed.

So now, having that in your arsenal,

I am sure you can hold your head up high,

And carry within yourself the knowledge of the bits and bytes,

Which no one can steal from you until the computers die.

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