Why is the basic code binary code?

Answer 1

According to Wikipedia, "An Indian named Pingala developed advanced mathematical concepts for describing prosody, and in doing so presented the first known description of a binary numeral system."

Answer 2

Computers are electrical systems. They operate on the simple concept of 'on' and 'off', '1' and '0'. They cannot easily or reliably measure in-betweens (this is called 'Analog Computing', and does exist, but is not common in everyday computers) so the binary system was made.

Binary can express virtually any input through enumeration, digitization, and encoding.

For example, following is this entire answer in binary.

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Answer 3

Binary code suitable for computers because computer is an electronic device that's why it can understand only electrical signals.In binary language all type of data is represented in the form of 0's and 1's stream, that can be converted easily into electrical signals because electrical signals also have two states we can say these states are off or on state,high or low so this can be converted in the form of 0's and 1's stream.Here 0 is known as off state and 1 is known as on state generally.

Answer 4

Because Binary is the code the computer uses to run even read disc's on a disc if it's engraved its 1 if not its 0(not able to be seen by a naked eye only under a microscope)

Answer 5

The first 'computers' consisted of banks of switches that only had two positions - on or off. The prefix 'bi' means two - all computers ultimately use binary machine language.

Answer 6

Because electronic components have 2 state - "on" (1) or "off"(0).

Answer 7

Because it is !

Answer 8

on and off :)