What are two advantages of using binary numbers rather than decimal numbers in a computer system?

Answer 1

Your question is actually flawed...binary system is not used in digital systems... Rather, systems using binary numbers only are called digital systems...

It is common knowledge that, digital electronics employs just 2 states (or rather numbers, as mathematicians put it...) the two numbers being '0' and '1'.

Obviously, it is easier to design electronic systems dealing with just 2 states...It's majorly this ease, that led to such exponential development in the field of digital electronics. It ios also cheaper to make or produce such systems...

Answer 2

1. Binary computers do not understand decimal. The native language of a binary computer is binary language. Thus if we wish to avoid unnecessary computations converting to and from decimal encodings, we must represent all numbers using binary.

2. Decimal computers are complicated. While it is possible for a computer to differentiate between 10 possible states and thus work with native decimal values, logic circuits are much easier to implement when there are only two possible states to consider. Arithmetic is the application of pure logic, thus arithmetic circuitry is greatly simplified as a result.

Answer 3

The advantage of binary numbers is that they can be electronically stored in the form of magnetic fields. Magnetic fields have two different poles, north and south, and so these two poles can represent the two numbers of a binary system. Magnetic fields can be manipulated very rapidly and accurately by computers. So far it is the most broadly useful system that we have for data processing. This does not rule out the possibility that we will someday devise an even more useful system.

Answer 4

The computer can understand it, besides that their are no advantages.

Answer 5

Binary number system used in digital logic because of the simplest nature of its representation.