Binary coding

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Binary coding is the term used to describe how information, normally numbers, are stored in binary, radix-2 form.

The conventional mathematical way is described in the article about binary numeral systems, however to electronic purposes different ways of encoding numbers are used for efficiency or practical reasons.

Coding systems include integral data types.

See also:

• Gray code, binary.

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