Humans have had an extremely long history, in which we have developed countless important technologies that have helped us in ways we could never have imagined.
One of the ways we can see the evidence for this is through computers. We depend on them every day, and if we eliminate them from our environment we will realize it almost immediately. That is why many people wonder how they work. They do it through binary language, which we will show you below.
What is binary language and what characters does it use?
Binary language is one that was created with the explicit function of being able to establish a communication link between man and machine. That is, the computer. This is important because without this language the human could not have control over the processes carried out by the physical parts of the computer. Remember that all these parts are made up of a bunch of electrical parts that are activated when a current is passed to them.
The Binary language serves so that Hardware-type components know when they have to act and in what way they should do it. This is very important because without this language, many physical parts of your computer would be damaged just trying to turn it on.
Binary language instructs these parts how much energy and how to use it. This language is handled through only two letters, which in this case are numbers for us. These are ‘0’ and ‘1’ , which can be counted as ‘No’ and ‘Yes’. Many people entertain themselves by writing your name in binary code.
How does binary language communicate with the computer?
When you have hardware type materials, you will see that the first thing you have to do is instruct them how they should act in harmony with the rest of the parts of the PC. As these devices are not living beings nor do they have a brain, they only work when an electrical current is passed to them. In order to give a specific result, a special current is made to pass through the apparatus.
This stream contains the special information that will tell the component what to do. The message is encoded through zeros and ones, which make complex combinations to encode entire words in ways that can be processed by your computer’s hardware. Another way you can observe binary language is through Binary Files.
Thanks to the binary code, the ASCII system could be created . This system is very important , because thanks to this system we were able to start coding more complex programs, which went beyond the possibilities offered by programs created in binary code.
When the binary code enters a physical component, it has a series of circuits that are activated and deactivated in order to create the effects that are requested . When the code reads a 1, the circuits are activated and when a 0 passes, the circuits are deactivated. This creates a command line that can be followed by the Computational Processing Unit.
These character swaps occur at incredible speeds, thousands upon thousands per second. The amount of bits that are spent is only comparable with the capacity and power of your computer.
Who created the binary code?
This is a question that a lot of people have asked themselves. This is very important, since the erection of this language has always been attributed to a single person throughout history.
If you know the story of Isaac Newton, you will know that he had an enemy scientist, who really had no ill intentions with his counterpart. This scientist is Gottfried Leibniz , and it can be considered that he, thanks to his code, is the father of computational technology.
The importance of the binary system lies in the fact that it is the foundational basis of all electronic technologies of the human being. It is important that you know that the Bit is the smallest unit of measurement of virtual space of all. If these are multiplied, you get the different other measurement scales out there. Many people take this into account when converting Megabites to Gigabites.
Also, we remind you that binary code is a language system that only has two characters , and that is why it is assigned its binary name.
