Dictionary of Business Terms: binary numbers
binary numbers
(base-2) numbers written in a positional number system that uses only two digits-0 and 1. Each digit of a binary number represents a power of 2. The rightmost digit is the ls digit, the next digit to the left is the 2s digit, and so on. The following table shows numbers written in decimal and binary form.
| Decimal | Binary |
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4 | 100 |
| 5 | 101 |
| 6 | 110 |
| 7 | 111 |
| 8 | 1000 |
| 9 | 1001 |
| 10 | 1010 |
