Binary Basics

CPU Core Functions

• Reads 0’s and 1’s from memory
• Perform math operations
• Writes the results back to memory

Letter meanings

• Capital B
  • Bytes
• Lowercase b
  • Bit

Units of Measurement

Bit

• A bit is a 0 or 1
• Represent an on or off state

Byte

• Made of 8 bits
• Example
  • 01010101
  • 00000000
  • 111111111

Larger Units

Kilobyte (KB)

• Made of 1024 Bytes
  • Also could be 8192 bits