it's how computers talk, stupid! if you tried to communicate in binary it would look something
like the example shown below. here's something interesting. 0001 =
1 0010 = 2 0011 = 3 0100 =
4 0101 = 5 0110 = 6 0111 = 7 now tell me how to write the numbers 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 , 15, and 16. if you can do that, you can read binary. GRATS! here's the point of it. by using only ones and 0's you can represent any base 10 number (what we use as
humans) oh by tbe way, read snow crash for an idea of why it's a good thing that
people's brains cannot directly read binary.