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binary code

noun

Computers.
  1. a system of representing letters, numbers, or other characters, using binary notation.


binary code

noun

  1. computing the representation of each one of a set of numbers, letters, etc, as a unique sequence of bits, as in ASCII
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A sheriff’s jail supervisor testified that Baker also tried to leave coded kites — a surreptitious method of inmate communication using handwritten binary code on paper — in a courthouse stairwell that the widow used after him.

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A final burst of laser pulses nudges each ion to either fluoresce or not—a flash of binary code that detectors read out as the computation’s solution.

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This binary code is the foundation of all classic computing processes.

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