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Friday, June 19, 2020

Binary/ASCII Keychain

On Wednesday we learnt about Binary and ASCII. 

Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!


ASCII is set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, I beaded it together and then had my keychain. I would insert a photo but I can't because my dad took it, to put on his desk.

Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII? 

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