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The Binary Number System

 

 

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Study the listing of the binary and decimal numbers given on the information page. Continue the list of binary numbers up to 20.


The one-armed life forms on the planet Zebula have six fingers on their stalk-like arms. They have only six digits in their number system. How do you suppose Zebulans count to ten?


A spy needed a secret code to get a message to a friend. He decided to code the alphabet in binary, as follows: 0=A, 1=B, 10=C, 11=D, 100=E, etc. Can you translate the message he sent?

Message:

 
 
 100010    100    1101    11    111    100    1011    1111  
 
             
             
             
             
 

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