Lab Log # 4

Part A:


Binary Number System:a numeral system that represents numeric values by using the symols 1 and 0 ( Used in today in computers for internal devices to communicate with each other)


Decimal Number System: is a numeral system that uses a base of ten, and is the most widely used numerical system (used everyday for various uses.. most commonly used number system)


Hexidecimal Number Systems: is a numeral system that uses a base of 16, written using the symbols 1-9 and a-f, or A-F (used to represent the binary system so that humans can read it easier)


The difference between the three above systems is that the binary system uses just two symbols 1 and 0 to reprresent everything, while the other two systems use many symbols as to make it easier to diffferentiate between different terms. While the binary system is used almost exculsively today in the internal deviecs of a computer, the decimal system is used in everyday life also. As well the hexidecimal system is used in computers but is formatted so as to make it easier for humans to read, but can still be used with computers. ( It is an easier way to read binary for humans).


Part B:


The base 2 and the base 10 number sysytems are similar by the fact that they are both using a couple of symbols to represent various values and terms. Both represent a large amount of values. By having the binary system be represented by 0's and 1's it furthered the abilities of the computer. As by having the symbols represent the on and off posistions of the transistors, this making it easier for the computer to understand things as well as make it possible for us, as humans, to be able to better figure out how a computer communicates internally.

Over the ages the binary system has evolved from consisting of trigrams and hexigrams, this being used in medieval Western geomancy, as well as other forms of divination in ancient times. The use of the binary system once represented the alphabet. This was important to for the general theory of binary encoding, for it was stated that this method could be used with any object at all (as long as those objects are capable of twofold difference only). In the 17th century the modern binary system was created by a man by the name of Gottfried Leibniz. George Boole in 1854, had a paper published detailing a system of logic that later became known as Boolean logic.. This logical system proved to be important for the development of the binary system, especially in its implementation in the electronic circuitry. Claude Shannon furthered this technology by implementing Boolean algebra and binary arithmetic using switches and electronic relays for the first time in history.

The intellectual importance of the binary system is that as more people developed the binary system the more they seemed to pursue the logic of a binary code. It has developed to become a specific language used by a computers internal devices as a way to communicate between themselves.

Part C:

Time: 4:56 a.m. 0011 0100 0011 1010 0011 0100 0011 0110 0110 0001 0110 1101

Bibliography


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal