Geluidsoverlast Posted:

http://www.nickciske.com/tools/binary.php

Use it.

I have a master’s degree in math, can I use that instead?

Binary is not a secret means to express letters. It’s a numeral system that expresses numbers in a different way. Every number has a binary representation, a ternary representation, a quaternary representation, any base you like. What base you use depends on what sort of context you’re working in. For computers, binary is useful since the architecture makes it easy to express things like “yes” and “no” (i.e. “above a certain voltage” and “below a certain voltage” ), while further granularity is difficult.

Computers thus tend to store everything in terms of binary since it’s the most natural system of numerals to do in a computer, however they are still prima facie just numbers. The way we convert them to letters is with a chart that says “okay, this number corresponds to this letter”, for example here. The number 100 doesn’t necessarily mean ‘d’, it’s just that when some smart guys got together and laid out the ASCII table, they decided that 100 was a good one for ‘d’, and pretty much everybody decided to go with it.

But your argument really requires a ton of leaps.

1100100 (binary) = 100 (decimal) -> ‘d’ (ascii table) -> 25 (???????)

Anyway, 100 isn’t the ascii for ‘D’ (that’s 68) it’s the ascii for ‘d’.