That’s it! Conclusion To change binary code into text, which is what humans can read, you have two ways. First, convert the binary numbers into decimal or hexadecimal.

Learn about digital data and how computers understand it, including binary, denary, hexadecimal numbers, units of data, character sets and logic gates.

Unlike our everyday counting system that uses tens, binary uses just two numbers, 0 and 1. Learn more with BBC Bitesize. Suitable for KS3 students.