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Encyclopedia > Binary Code

The term binary code can mean several different things:

  • Made up of only zeros and ones(zeros standing for off and ones standing for on), and used in computers to stand for letters and digits.

For example, computers using western languages often use 8-bit binary codes for characters. The ISO 8859-1 character code uses 8 bits for one letter e.g. "R" is "01010010" and "b" is "01100010"; the block of 8 bits is called a byte. The ASCII code uses 7 bits to represent 128 characters (0–127). The binary or base-two numeral system is a system for representing numbers in which a radix of two is used; that is, each digit in a binary numeral may have either of two different values. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In computer science, Huffman coding is an entropy encoding algorithm used for data compression that finds the optimal system of encoding strings based on the relative frequency of each character. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding originally developed by ISO, but later jointly maintained by ISO and IEC. The standard, when supplemented with additional character assignments, is the... In computer science a byte (pronounced bite) is a unit of measurement of information storage, most often consisting of eight bits. ... Image:ASCII fullsvg There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...


A binary code can also refer to a linear code over the finite field F2 = Z/2Z. In mathematics, a (binary) linear code of length and rank is a linear subspace with dimension of the vector space . Aside: is the field of two elements and is the set of all n-tuples of length over . ... In abstract algebra, a finite field or Galois field (so named in honor of Évariste Galois) is a field that contains only finitely many elements. ...


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Method for coding binary data and a device decoding coded data - Patent 4500871 (3615 words)
A method for coding binary data to be transmitted and a device for decoding coded data dispense with the need to transmit a direct-current component and make it possible to reconstitute clock signals from coded data without any addition of a particular channel.
With this objective, the input signal constituted by a sequence of groups of eight binary data is converted to a coded signal constituted by a sequence of words of sixteen binary data associated respectively with the groups and having a data repetition frequency which is double the repetition frequency of the input signal data.
In fact, since the coded signal consists of a sequence of 16-bit words associated with each of the states to be coded, it must accordingly be ensured that the serial association of words is not conducive to the appearance of "isolated" bits.
(WO/1998/052346) LOSSLESS IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH TREE CODING (2244 words)
First, the number of binary ones in the bitmap are counted and the resulting number is placed in the root node of a binary tree.
The number of binary ones in the obtained sub-images are then counted and found to be two in the upper sub-image 105 and sixteen in the lower sub-image 107.
Then a binary bi-level image to be transmitted or stored is input in a block 203, and the number of binary ones in that image are counted in a block 205.
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