Question

Demonstrate your understanding of the binary representation of data by expressing the year of your birth (or another significant year) in binary form. Explain how you arrived at your answer.

Answer 1

To express a year in binary form, divide the decimal number by 2, write down the remainders, and reverse the order to get the binary representation.

Step-by-step explanation:

To express a year in binary form, we need to convert the decimal representation of the year into its binary equivalent. Let's take the year 1995 as an example:

Step 1: Divide the decimal number by 2 and write down the remainder. 1995 ÷ 2 = 997 remainder 1

Step 2: Divide the quotient from step 1 by 2 and write down the remainder. 997 ÷ 2 = 498 remainder 1

Repeat this process until the quotient becomes 0. The final binary representation of 1995 is obtained by writing the remainders in reverse order: 11111001111