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Stevebroshar (talk | contribs) it's broader and looser than a just machine code and bytecode |
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[[Image:Wikipedia in binary.gif|thumb |The ASCII-encoded letters of "Wikipedia" represented as binary codes.]]
[[Image:Binary to Hexadecimal or Decimal.jpg|thumb |Values represented in binary, hex and decimal]]
A '''binary code''' is the value of a [[data encoding |data-encoding]] convention represented in a [[Binary number |binary]] notation that usually is a sequence of 0s and 1s; sometimes called a ''[[bit]] string''. For example, [[ASCII]] is an 8-bit text encoding that in addition to the [[human readable]] form (letters) can be represented as binary. ''Binary code'' can also refer to the [[mass noun]] ''code''
Even though all modern computer data is binary in nature, and therefore, can be represented as binary, other [[numerical base]]s are usually used. [[Power of 2]] bases (including [[hexadecimal |hex]] and [[octal]]) are sometimes considered binary code since their power-of-2 nature makes them inherently linked to binary. [[Decimal]] is, of course, a commonly used representation. For example, ASCII characters are often represented as either decimal or hex. Some types of data such as [[image]] data is sometimes represented as hex, but rarely as decimal.
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; Bagua {{anchor|BaGua}}: The ''[[bagua]]'' is a set of diagrams used in ''[[feng shui]],'' [[Taoist]] [[cosmology]] and ''[[I Ching]]'' studies. The ''ba gua'' consists of 8 trigrams; each a combination of three lines (''yáo'') that are either broken ([[Yin and yang|''yin'']]) or unbroken (''yang'').<ref name='wilhelm'>{{cite book |last=Wilhelm |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Wilhelm (sinologist) |others=trans. by [[Cary F. Baynes]], foreword by [[C. G. Jung]], preface to 3rd ed. by [[Hellmut Wilhelm]] (1967) |title=The I Ching or Book of Changes |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1950 |___location=Princeton, NJ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA266 |isbn=978-0-691-09750-3 |pages=266, 269}}</ref>
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