Talk:Binary code

message: The binary code is a code that the computer uses. The code consists of 2 numbers the numbers 1 and 0. 1=on or true 0=off or false. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.229.242.28 (talk • contribs)  and it is really boring haven't you got something better to do with your life.
Erm, ascii uses 8 bits, the first number being in case of negative, so it wont have an error when  an user inputs a wrong number. Look it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjonller (talk • contribs) 
:Actually, ASCII is a 7-bit code.  There are various 8-bit extensions of it, but they are more often treated as unsigned than as signed codes; it doesn't really matter though, since it's a code, not a number. Dicklyon 00:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Random comments

message: Ok, so I want to expand this page about binary codes to examples to what a byte consists of -
-8 bits;8 zeros or ones
-values descend from the 1st bit to the last bit from 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
minimum value is 0, and max is 256
- used for IP addresses, default gateways, and subnet masks
do you think this is the right page to put this in? B'cause i searched and there are different pages like binary code, and binary coding... 
i'm not sure where to put it
i think that its good 23:05, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  10010101 - is this right? 

message: Shouldn't this article be merged with the binary numeral system article, because this article doesn't contain much detail and the other one does?--LF2 16:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps, perhaps not.  One can use a binary code - a code where an item being encoded is encoded as a sequence of one of two symbols - without the code being interpreted as a base-2 number.  Francis Bacon didn't seem to ascribe any numerical significance to the sequences of 'a's and 'b's he was using as a binary code for letters of the alphabet. Guy Harris (talk) 23:59, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with binary (numerals) 

message: I added a science stub category to this page. If anyone can thinks of a more appropriate stub, or thinks it shouldn't be there go ahead and change it. davekeeling 15:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub 

message: There is no mention of Pingala in this section. His work is an important ancient contribution to the concept.
Here's a summary of the information missing from this article:  
An Indian scholar Pingala (2nd century BC) developed the binary system for describing prosody in his .
The procedure of Pingala's system is as follows: 
* Divide the number by 2. If divisible register 1, otherwise register 0.
* If first division yields 1 as remainder, add 1 and divide again by 2. If fully divisible, register 1, otherwise write 0 to the right of first 1.
* If first division yields 0 as remainder that is, it is fully divisible, add 1 to the remaining number and divide by 2. If divisible, register 1, otherwise register 0 to the right of first 0.
* This procedure is continued until 0 as final remainder is obtained.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jugdev (talk • contribs) 18:42, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Pingala is mentioned in the third paragraph. There's just no reason for him to appear at the very beginning of the article when other binary systems clearly predate Pingala's work. For example, one of the binary-like systems described in the article dates back to the 9th century BC. Why should it appear after Pingala? It makes most sense to structure the history section chronologically.--Rurik the Varangian (talk) 17:20, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  where would you suggest we put the section noted above?-JG (talk) 18:42, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: BIASED History of Binary code

message: we have been learning about binary it is awsome  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.195.47.25 (talk) 09:15, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  binary 

message: Binary number#History discusses a number of binary coding systems that predate Leibniz's Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire.  Those don't seem to involve treating the binary encodings as base-2 numbers, however, so perhaps those schemes should be moved to Binary code#History of binary code, with Binary number#History mentioning those binary code schemes in passing and linking to Binary code#History of binary code.  (It sounds as if the scheme used by the residents of the island of Mangareva in French Polynesia may have been a number system, in which case it should remain in Binary number#History.) Guy Harris (talk) 00:08, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Binary codes, binary numbers, and which articles should discuss which 

message: BCD and the 2421 code are examples of weighted codes. In a weighted code, each bit position is assigned a weighting factor in such a way that each digit can be evaluated by adding the weights of all the 1’s in the coded combination.
Four Different Binary Codes for the Decimal Digits
Decimal     BCD          2421       Excess‐3    8, 4, -2, -1
Digit       8421
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 0          0000         0000         0011         0000
 1          0001         0001         0100         0111
 2          0010         0010         0101         0110
 3          0011         0011         0110         0101
 4          0100         0100         0111         0100
 5          0101         1011         1000         1011
 6          0110         1100         1001         1010
 7          0111         1101         1010         1001
 8          1000         1110         1011         1000
 9          1001         1111         1100         1111
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            1010         0101         0000         0001
 Unused     1011         0110         0001         0010
 bit        1100         0111         0010         0011
 combi-     1101         1000         1101         1100
 nations    1110         1001         1110         1101
            1111         1010         1111         1110
The 2421, the excess‐3 and the 84-2-1 codes are examples of self‐complementing codes. Such codes have the property that the 9’s complement of a decimal number is obtained directly by changing 1’s to 0’s and 0’s to 1’s (i.e., by complementing each bit in the pattern). For example, decimal 395 is represented in the excess‐3 code as 0110 1100 1000. The 9’s complement of 604 is represented as 1001 0011 0111, which is obtained simply by complementing each bit of the code (as with the 1’s complement of binary numbers).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amitbanda (talk • contribs) 16:09, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weighted and non weighted binary codes 

message: There is a modern trend that arose after cheap labour from China and India crept into native-English nations. This consists of proclaiming that all modern information found or created in native-English nations have already been there in China and South-Asian traditions, some thousands of years back. 
That fact is that if monkey and ant languages can be studied, hundreds of similar minute information can be found in them. However, to get them out of their pits, it would be necessary to teach English to the monkeys and ants; and then allow them to enter into some native English society.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4073:31F:155A:1C95:9B79:94F4:366C (talk) 04:01, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Binary codes in the monkey language 

message: I am going to be making a page about Combary a new computing language that uses both combinations and binary as two distinct languages held in a third (ternary).
I am wondering as to the best way to comment here about the Combary system I invented and patented. MichaelHMath (talk) 06:27, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New language  reference using and comparing to binary 

message: Non-binary gender  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.132.44.23 (talk) 18:56, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: "Disambiguation" in what sense?  The only thing "binary code" and "non-binary gender" have to do with one another is that they both have the word "binary" in them, referring to the notion of a choice between two alternatives (1 and 0 in the first case, female and male in the second case).  There is a disambiguation page binary, which links both to here and to gender binary, with a link to non-binary gender as a subitem underneath the gender binary link.  I see nothing that needs to be done to binary code here. Guy Harris (talk) 20:16, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation for "Non-binary gender"?