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it's just counting

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

"base 10", or "decimal"

delete the 9s!

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, …

"base 9"

… 18, 19, 20, 21, …

… 88, 89, 90, 91, … 99, 100, 101, …

delete the 9s!

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, …

"base 9"

18, 20, 21, …

88, 100, 101, …

0, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 100, 101, …

"base 3"

drumroll...

the last two digits!

binary!!

0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, …

"base 2"

count to 10000

(in binary 😉)

Decimal Binary
0 0
1  1
2 10
3 11
...
Decimal Binary
0 0
1  1
2 10
3 11
4 100
5 101
6 110
7 111
8 1000
9 1001
10 1010
11 1011
12 1100
13 1101
14 1110
15 1111
16 10000
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 0
0 1 0 1
0 1 1 0
0 1 1 1
1 0 0 0
1 0 0 1
1 0 1 0
1 0 1 1
1 1 0 0
1 1 0 1
1 1 1 0
1 1 1 1

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binary solo

number → letter

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P

ASCII!

 0 = [NUL]
 1 = [SOH]
 2 = [STX]
 3 = [ETX]
 4 = [EOT]
 5 = [ENQ]
 6 = [ACK]
 7 = [BEL]
 8 = [BS]
 9 = [HT]
10 = [LF]
11 = [VT]
12 = [FF]
13 = [CR]
14 = [SO]
15 = [SI]
16 = [DLE]
17 = [DC1]
18 = [DC2]
19 = [DC3]
20 = [DC4]
21 = [NAK]
22 = [SYN]
23 = [ETB]
24 = [CAN]
25 = [EM]
26 = [SUB]
27 = [ESC]
28 = [FS]
29 = [GS]
30 = [RS]
31 = [US]
32 = " "
33 = !
34 = "
35 = #
36 = $
37 = %
38 = &
39 = '
40 = (
41 = )
42 = *
43 = +
44 = ,
45 = -
46 = .
47 = /
48 = 0
49 = 1
50 = 2
51 = 3
52 = 4
53 = 5
54 = 6
55 = 7
56 = 8
57 = 9
58 = :
59 = ;
60 = <
61 = =
62 = >
63 = ?
64 = @
65 = A
66 = B
67 = C
68 = D
69 = E
70 = F
71 = G
72 = H
73 = I
74 = J
75 = K
76 = L
77 = M
78 = N
79 = O
80 = P
81 = Q
82 = R
83 = S
84 = T
85 = U
86 = V
87 = W
88 = X
89 = Y
90 = Z
91 = [
92 = \
93 = ]
94 = ^
95 = _
 96 = `
 97 = a
 98 = b
 99 = c
100 = d
101 = e
102 = f
103 = g
104 = h
105 = i
106 = j
107 = k
108 = l
109 = m
110 = n
111 = o
112 = p
113 = q
114 = r
115 = s
116 = t
117 = u
118 = v
119 = w
120 = x
121 = y
122 = z
123 = {
124 = |
125 = }
126 = ~
127 = [DEL]

1960s

"bytes"

Every number is made of

exactly 8 bits (1s and 0s)

Decimal Binary
0 00000000
1 00000001
2 00000010
3 00000011
4 00000100
5 00000101
6 00000110
7 00000111
8 00001000
9 00001001
10 00001010
11 00001011
12 00001100
13 00001101
14 00001110
15 00001111
16 000010000

ASCII!

 0 = [NUL]
 1 = [SOH]
 2 = [STX]
 3 = [ETX]
 4 = [EOT]
 5 = [ENQ]
 6 = [ACK]
 7 = [BEL]
 8 = [BS]
 9 = [HT]
10 = [LF]
11 = [VT]
12 = [FF]
13 = [CR]
14 = [SO]
15 = [SI]
16 = [DLE]
17 = [DC1]
18 = [DC2]
19 = [DC3]
20 = [DC4]
21 = [NAK]
22 = [SYN]
23 = [ETB]
24 = [CAN]
25 = [EM]
26 = [SUB]
27 = [ESC]
28 = [FS]
29 = [GS]
30 = [RS]
31 = [US]
32 = " "
33 = !
34 = "
35 = #
36 = $
37 = %
38 = &
39 = '
40 = (
41 = )
42 = *
43 = +
44 = ,
45 = -
46 = .
47 = /
48 = 0
49 = 1
50 = 2
51 = 3
52 = 4
53 = 5
54 = 6
55 = 7
56 = 8
57 = 9
58 = :
59 = ;
60 = <
61 = =
62 = >
63 = ?
64 = @
65 = A
66 = B
67 = C
68 = D
69 = E
70 = F
71 = G
72 = H
73 = I
74 = J
75 = K
76 = L
77 = M
78 = N
79 = O
80 = P
81 = Q
82 = R
83 = S
84 = T
85 = U
86 = V
87 = W
88 = X
89 = Y
90 = Z
91 = [
92 = \
93 = ]
94 = ^
95 = _
 96 = `
 97 = a
 98 = b
 99 = c
100 = d
101 = e
102 = f
103 = g
104 = h
105 = i
106 = j
107 = k
108 = l
109 = m
110 = n
111 = o
112 = p
113 = q
114 = r
115 = s
116 = t
117 = u
118 = v
119 = w
120 = x
121 = y
122 = z
123 = {
124 = |
125 = }
126 = ~
127 = [DEL]

1960s

American Standard Code for Information Exchange

text: it�s hard

unicode

ò ж  ҈  ☂ 🙀

01000001 → A

11100110 10010111 10101001 → 早

11110000 10011111 10001111 10000011  → 🏃

11010000 10110100 → д

11011000 00111100 11011111 11000011 00100000 00001101 00100110 01000000 11111110 00001111  🏃‍♀️

11011000 00111100 11011111 11000011 11011000 00111100 11011111 11111110 00100000 00001101 00100110 01000000 11111110 00001111  🏃🏾‍♀️

computers make everything worse

By Phil Schleihauf

computers make everything worse

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