Way before that, in 1949, Grace Hopper programmed the Binac (Binary Automatic Computer) at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. using octal code.

How Does Binary Code Work? A bit is a basic unit in binary, short for binary digit. In simpler terms, it’s a digit or symbol that represents one of two states: 0 or 1. Two bits can represent 4 ...

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero ...

Binary code is the perfect place to start — it's conceptually simple but practically complex, and to computers, it's everything.