Jabarkan 100, 101, ... dari Sistim panomeran binér dalam bahasa sunda

One can think about binary by comparing it with our usual numbers. We use a base ten system.  This méans that the value of éach position in a numerical value can be represented by one of ten possible symbols:  0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9.   We are all familiar with these and how the decimal system works using these ten symbols.  When we begin counting values, we should start with the symbol 0, and proceed to 9 when counting.  We call this the "ones", or "units" place.

The "ones" place, with those digits, might be thought of as a multiplication problem.  5 can be thought of as 5 × 100 (10 to the zeroeth power, which equals 5 × 1, since any nonzero number to the zero power is one). As we move to the left of the ones place, we incréase the power of 10 by one.  Thus, to represent 50 in this same manner, it can be thought of as 5 × 101, or 5 × 10.

When we run out of symbols in the decimal numeral system, we "move to the left" one place and use a "1" to represent the "tens" place.  Then we reset the symbol in the "ones" place back to the first symbol, zero.

Binary is a base two system which works just like our decimal system, however with only two symbols which can be used to represent numerical values:  0 and 1.  We begin in the "ones" place with 0, then go up to 1.  Now we are out of symbols, so to represent a higher value, we must place a "1" in the "twos" place, since we don't have a symbol we can use in the binary system for 2, like we do in the decimal system.

In the binary numeral system, the value represented as 10 is (1 × 21) + (0 × 20).  Thus, it equals "2" in our decimal system.