Tech at Tamaki College | Robotics

LI: To learn how to figure out the binary of numbers



This week for robotics we learnt about binary and decimal numbers. Binary and Decimal are different ways of counting. The bi in binary means something that involves with two things, the dec in decimal means it relates to something with ten. For this lesson we tried to figure out numbers with binary numbers, like for example 10 would be 01010 because the first column would be sixteen, eight, four, two then one. We also had a challenge to write our name but in binary numbers, and also write a message for someone to solve and also in binary. We learnt how to count in binary because computers count in the binary method but we are used to counting in Decimal, and since we were doing coding we might've not known why the computer was using random numbers. I found this lesson interesting because I never knew that the computers used a different counting methods than us and I learnt a new method.