In what way does binary resemble a language?

Answer 1

Our computers are digital computers as opposed to analog computers. Digital computers process data and instructions made up of words or bytes which are composed of a number of bits. Normally 8 bits make a byte, either 2 bytes (16 bits) or 4 bytes (32 bits) make a computer instruction or a data word. It all depends on the computer design.

The smallest piece of information (part of an instruction or data) is the bit. A bit represents something that can have two values. We call them "0" and "1". Because it can only have two values, we refer to the computer as a binary computer and its machine language as a binary language.

Answer 2

Machine code is machine-dependant because every machine architecture has its own version of machine code. The code is non-portable because only the machine for which the code was intended will be able to understand it.

Answer 3

Computers only understand binary because it's the simplest method of encoding digital information in a machine that has no intelligence and no concept of what a number is. The computer only needs to differentiate between two possible states, such as high and low voltage, electric impulses, flux transitions between positively and negatively charged particles, long and short scores on an optical disk, even holes punched in a card or just a simple series of on/off switches. All are perfectly valid methods of digitising binary data in a way the machine can understand. We use 1s and 0s for convenience; but the computer cannot -- it must use a wider variety of abstract binary representations.

Or computers don't understand anything; it is a stimulus-response type machine. Of course, that argument has been applied to people. If you are a person, what do you understand?

Answer 4

Our computers are digital computers as opposed to analog computers. Digital computers process data and instructions made up of words or bytes which are composed of a number of bits. Normally 8 bits make a byte, either 2 bytes (16 bits) or 4 bytes (32 bits) make a computer instruction or a data word. It all depends on the computer design.

The smallest piece of information (part of an instruction or data) is the bit. A bit represents something that can have two values. We call them "0" and "1". Because it can only have two values, we refer to the computer as a binary computer and its machine language as a binary language.

Answer 5

It is the only language the machine understands. Although we typically use symbolic languages to write programs (because they are easier for humans to understand), these programs need to be converted into machine code, either by an assembler, a compiler or an interpreter, before the computer can execute the program.

Answer 6

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