How to count in binary
- Nikolay Miroshnychenko
- Jul 16, 2024
- 1 min read
There are only š types of people:
- Those who understand binary
- Those who don't understand binary
It's important for every engineer to understand binary. Why?Ā
š¢ Bitwise operations. Many low-level programming tasks, such as manipulating data at the bit level, require knowledge of binary.Ā
š Memory Management. Understanding binary allows you to debug such problems as integer overflow.Ā
š» Hardware Interaction. If you're going to be working with hardware components chances are you will have to communicate with the device exclusively in binary.Ā
There are many benefits of understanding binary, but these are the important ones in my mind.Ā
You can save this post as a cheatsheet whenever you want to remember how binary works.Ā

Thanks for reading!
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