Digital information is stored using a series of ones and zeros. computers are digital machines because they can only read information as on or off –1 or 0. this method of computation is known as the system

This is the binary system. Numbers are easily translated from binary simply by each binary number in a bit of information has an exponential value. You can translate binary to words because each set of 8 0s and 1s can be translated into numbers which are labeled in a system called asscii. For each number there is a charecter or symbol associated. for example:0000 0011 would translate to 3 and in asscii that 3 would translate into a G. therefore 00000011 would be translated twice by the computer if you hit the g key on your keyboard until a G was displayed on your screen.