Course: NETW202 - Introduction to Networking It’s important to understand the difference between a binary number system and a decimal number system because IPv4 addresses are made up of 32-bits. Bits are written in binary but are converted into decimal notation for easier readability (Academy, C.N., 2017). No one wants to read a bunch of 0’s and 1’s. The decimal system is a sequence of 10 digits ranging from 0 to 9. Because the decimal system is made up of a sequence of 10 numbers, its base is 10. This is important because the base number becomes your radix, or the number upon which you apply an exponent to get the positional value. The position in the decimal number sequence becomes the exponent which you use to identify the result – the positional value. As stated in several earlier posts, binary is made up of the numbers 0 and 1. Because it is only made up of 2 numbers, its base is 2. So 2 is your radix. A bit has 8 digits of 0’s or 1’s, so the sequence position ranges f...
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