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What is 13 in binary?
Short answer. 1101.
In which order do you read the remainders?
From bottom to top.
Divide by 2
| Divide | Answer | Left over |
|---|---|---|
| 13 / 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 6 / 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 / 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 / 2 | 0 | 1 |
Remember
| Read remainders bottom up |
| 13 = 1101 |
Can you write thirteen in binary? Keep dividing by two. Thirteen gives remainder one. Six gives zero. Three gives one. One gives one. Remember. Read them bottom up. Thirteen is one one zero one.
This clip is from the full lesson: Number Systems: Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal — 7 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 11 Computer Science (083), CBSE Class 11 Computer Science Essentials (083), ISC Class 11 Computer Science (868), ISC Class 12 Computer Science (868)
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