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How To Read Text In Binary
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2014
- tomscott.com - @tomscott - No, seriously. Here's how to read text when all you can see is a bunch of 0s and 1s. It's easier than it seems. I... I think I might have gone off the deep end a bit here.
"it is an almost useless geek skill"
why else would I be interested?
Exactly!!!
yea
Aliah Vick To hack someone's file 💻
Their divine frequencys if you can make a viable description of 💮 space = 32
I'm gonna use binary to make people believe I have personal problems lel
There is 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who weren't expecting a ternary joke.
There are 10 types of people in the world... Actually, there are people who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.
+Tim Tian Ha.
***** EDIT: oops, i literally just posted a blank comment by accident! i can't believe that XD clicked "reply" instead of "view comments" then misclicked "reply" meaning to hit "cancel"!!! gahd i wonder how many people that happens to ;-;
+Green Inc. Well... no. 10. Because ternary system goes 0 - 1 - 2 before carrying.
+Jontheawsome92 If only Jack was here now
Tom, you've created a monster
We now use this to pass notes in class
I really dam hope this is true
@@MaxxBaseball indeed
The thing is, it'd be even cooler if you implemented a randomizer in your alphabet. What I mean is, instead of your alphabet being a=1 b=2 c=3 (etc) you go h=1 q=2 f=3 (etc; continue for all 26 letters.)
nice
@@JonesNate That would be way harder to remember though, and would require either way too much dedication or a decoder; A decoder would take too long to write with, and would probably get discovered by a teacher more easily.
Such measures would only need to be implemented if your teacher teaches computer science.
"That's a useless skill to have"
*Pure mathematician laughs in the corner*
Programmers, specifically those using microcontrollers, also laugh.
And then cries.
U mean programmers my guy
Hellow well microprocessor based systems require the ability to understand how binary works when dealing with Assembly and knowing how to set the registers and stuff loke thay
AIZEN I CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU IN MARCH 2021
When I worked at a computer museum, the programs stored on paper tape would often begin with "REM " and the name of the program. When someone yeeted the drawer they were all kept in across the room, separating them from their labels, knowing how to read the headers without having to load them into the computer's temperamental mechanism was an extremely useful geek skill!
Older. BASIC!
Lies again? Thick Sperm
Laughed when one of my lecturers walked in with a T shirt saying "There's only 10 types of people in the world"
AFGuidesHD How did you get here?
TheGreenWizard Cuz UA-cam
I will hack you so be scared
Connor_M27 my boy
Im watching tjis because i want that t-shirt!
October 2013, I taught this to my friend in my English class.
We don't speak anymore.
True story.
Ah I get it "speak" because you taught him binary so did I get it?
@@tausiftaha12 nope .-.
@@crimebelt what in the what now
@@tausiftaha12 0320320320320200423040234234234234234234234234234234234234
@@crimebelt Hello, Uri nayu.
For a uni project we build a custom parallel communication between two microcontrollers, where error correcting of our conversions and recieved data had to be done by hand, so I have used it before. Never noticed the upper case letters with "010" and lower case with "011" but makes perfect sense when looking at ascii integer values
I've been trying to teach a friend how to count in binary on their fingers to a thousand... It's really funny watching people watch you do it for the first time because they get so confused with the fingers moving about seemingly randomly.
Oh that's so cool!
Tried doing it with my thumbs to use 10 digits and get to 1024. 9 was very hard as I couldn’t raise my ring finger individually when I put my thumb out. 4 is also just a middle finger.
I used to be fluent in morse as well, and I'd picked it up from a tree chart so when I was in that stage between just learning and having it all memorized I used my hands to guide me down the tree, and people always got a kick out of that. I should pick it back up.
@Ramón well it would be for two hands 512 (all fingers+thumbs with their power of 2 and one existing)*2(which is 1024)-1(since you are one short from doubling it when putting all your fingers up)=1023
@Ramón remember you have 2 hands
I just learned to read binary in one minute. Thanks Tom Scott.
So, you learned binary in one minute from a video that's 3 minutes 29 seconds long?
@@ArchangelExile speed it up
@@rachelcookie321 1 minute 45 seconds?
There’s 3 actually
Awesome
Wow, that was way easier than the way I was taught. Thanks 😊
This is very helpful and educational. The way you explain it is easy to understand. Keep it up!
2:17 for some reason, I feel lied to...
IronicPrayer Ironically, he IS telling the truth... This time :P
IronicPrayer its a lie.
The cake is a lie !
Meet the creator of GLaDOS
I'm actually confused whether he's telling the correct method or all that was just for a joke:/
I wrote a smiley face on all my classmates yearbooks in binary.
Nice
ok
How?
What
00111010 00101001
Wow, it couldn’t be easier to understand. What a walk through, thanks.
Me learning how to read binary at 2 am during quarantine: 👁👄👁
I had to watch this video a couple times before it clicked in my brain. And now that I understand it, I'm super hooked on finding random binary messages to translate XD. It's like a fun numbers game and you explain this in a way that's very simple to understand so thanks for this video and giving me a new weird hobby :P.
01000111 01101111 01101111 01100100
010 Translate this plz
@@ibrahimalrayes5136 it says *"GOOD"*
@@mil_zero Yes, l saw this reply section and thought to confirm it even if this was commented a year ago.
Game Grumps sometimes will have a binary message at the end of their 10 Minute Power Hours.
If anyone's interested : digits start with "0011" followed by the 4-bit binary representation of the number, from 0 ("0000") to 9 ("1001")…
So many 0x30s and 0x58s to read…
My teacher sent me to watch this video. Best teacher ever.
Thank you. You explain it better than the other UA-cam's i watched
thats actually a lot easier than i expected...
The cake is a lie.
:D
yonoid818 I don't understand
Prathamesh Padiyar nvm
01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100101 00001010
Prathamesh Padiyar it is a reference
to my favourite thing
I learned to read the holes in paper tape from Jodrell Bank telescope back in the 70s. The hole patterns corresponded to letters in order of rarity in English, so it was very easy to decode.
My favourite ASCII code is 101010 (42) or 2A in hex, which is an asterisk ("*") used as "everything" in search strings.
No surprise, it is the answer to everything.
No fuckin way
@@kayco9188 Way!
This is a bit useful in exploitation or data analysis, because when bytes suddenly happen to be in readable text range it dings a bell in your head, but then you usually have ASCII representation next to raw data for convenience so you'd notice earlier.
I would like to emphasize the *almost* useless part. It is almost useless for those doing high level programming. But converting letters to ASCII and back is very useful when you are doing telecommunication or wireless communication programming between devices. It also helps to understand, when you are reading a hex or binary dump from a serial port, what things are ASCII visible characters and which are command characters. And finally, if you ever have to send data to a integrated circuit using I2C, SPI, UART, etc, etc, that is meant to store memory like some flash memory, then being able to interpret the binary signals coming back is really useful... But I guess that is only the case for EEs and Computer Engineers. :P
I'd say it's almost useless even at the low level to read ASCII in binary; it's useful (for low-level programming) to read ASCII in hex, but pretty much everything takes care of byte-aligning your input and gives it to you as hex because 9 characters (8 bits and a delimiter) per byte doesn't let you see much at a time.
On the other hand, it's valuable to be able to recognize that the weird memory corruption you're seeing contains the SSID of the hospital across the road.
I convinced my peers to salt and hash our passwords after I decoded their ultra-secret-encryption-algorithm with a basic calculator and this technique. Now the encryption projects are all mine. Almost useless ... almost.
Not going to take all the credit, I also shared Tom's videos on security (I'm not very good at explaining stuff).
then it properly was not hashed... do you know the meaning of hashing? Its different from encryption. Hashing is one way, and the data does not contain the information to reconstruct the original data, just like a signature.
Encryption on the other hand is certain logic and maths that can be reserved with another pattern, a phrase or password will contain all the data to process with the encryption output to calculate the input.
Very basic and stupid examples, but you should get the idea, its just data manipulation. Security does not exist, computers follow exact logic.
Hashing:
1 = a, b= 10, c= 0
you don't know the difference between if 10 is b or ac.
Encryption:
Add the key to each digit
1 = a, b = 2, c = 3
key = 1
output = a + key . b + key . c + key (. = append)
Decryption:
Minus the key from each digit.
ABC = 123
Encrypted = 234, if you take away the key from each digit to reverse it you get the original data.
Ashley Meah Yep, I do understand hashing, that's what I just implemented. A user's password is useless information, we only need to know if it's correct. However, I'm trying to document myself as much as I can because sometimes you do need to encrypt sensitive information, unfortunately that same information is key on database searches (queries). That's my next challenge.
Carlos Mora Question. What do you mean by key? The passwords are not unique keys are they? I also would not call a password useless but very sensitive.
... my friend just sent me a big block of binary to mess with me because he knows I don't know it... -_- and then he sent me a translator... -_- but this seems really simple once you know how it works.
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randomgirl L I'm going to do the same with my friend
randomgirl L read this
00100011
01000001
11001011
10100101
we dont respond to desonant and missing quantifiers. You can take your RANDOm and place it in your uni as shivlingarigalious
@@kimung203 쮥? Am I right?
Watching 3 min.of this is not a trash for me. I've already got how to read binary. Thanks men!
You made this much easier for me to understand! Now I can have fun🙂
Watched 200 vids trying to learn. Didnt get it. Watched this 1 time. Got it. Thanks man your voice is engaged, not boring and you sound like you really want people to learn. Amazing vid. Thanks
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
what?? you said there are eight types of people but only gave two
:3 I see you are 1 of those 10 types of people who don't understand *****
ah so you meant 10 as in "F + 1".. that makes... less since.
:P
***** :P I meant 10 as in binary 2
...and those that didn't expect this joke to be in base 3!
Nice info for the ASCII. I’m just studying that in my digital system class. Thanks for the video.
This was really helpful for me, thank you so much for this👏
I put a lenny face through a binary translator, then translated it back to text. ( Í¡° ÍœÊ- Í¡° )
David Jimmyrustler XD
010101010 010101010101010 01010101110100000010101010101010
PLS SOLVE THIS A HACKER GAVE IT TO MEEEEEEE
Spoder Men ujjupjj . thats the translation
( Í¡° ÍœÊ- Í¡° )
This is because lenny face uses the UTF-8 encoding, an extension of ASCII that adds a bunch of symbols from other languages. UTF-8 is the modern de facto standard for all text. But when you translated it back from binary to text, it was translated to pure ASCII, so it didn't recognise a lot of the symbols.
One of the few "Things that you might not have known" episodes where I actually DID know it. Wow.
***** I know, I know, but I was just saying that of the (currently) 130+ videos, this is one of the few that I know. (Also, I love your username ^^)
***** Nice analogy. I like that.
Bambo That's me..? What does that have to do with the comment?
Rosie Isla Dw then m8
Tom: "Almost Useless"
My AP Comp Sci Teacher This Morning: "Okay today we're learning binary. This will be on the AP Test."
You do realize I can't unlearn this now. ; - ) Almost embarrassing how simple it is. Thanks for showing it!
You missed the opportunity to call the first 4 bits of the byte a nibble!
Captain?
***** 8 bits are a byte, 4 bits are a nibble.
Thanks, captain. You may fly away now.
NOISEcore I thought it was a "nybble"? if not, hmph, that's what im calling it from now on.
Alex Madison both are correct i think, originally it was nibble because byte=bite and a small bite is a nibble but nybble and nyble are also correct because as the word byte isnt spelt nite, nibble can be changed to nybble or nyble to fit with the naming structure
useless geek skill? tell that to Gravity Falls fans...........
+insertname here Being a fan of anything is also considered to be useless by vast majority of people...
Timur Sultanov tru dat
+insertname here Its not useless
Zer0 that's what I said@@
YES
"almost useless geek skill"
ARG lovers: *are you sure about that*
“Almost”
I wouldn't have thought I was going to learn something today........ Thnx
Greets!!!
This was a triumph
01001001 01011100 00100111 01001101 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000001 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010100 01000101 00100000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000101 00111010 00100000 01001000 01010101 01000111 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010101 01000011 01000011 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100001
01001001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01100110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110
01000001 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 00101101 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00101110
0100011001101111011100100010000001110100011010000110010100100000010001110110111101101111011001000010000001101111011001100010000001100001011011000110110000100000011011110110011000100000011101010111001100100000001011010010000001100101011110000110001101100101011100000111010000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110111101101110011001010111001100100000011101110110100001101111001000000110000101110010011001010010000001100100011001010110000101100100
01000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01011100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100011 01110010 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00101110
Not useless at all. This is something I wanted to know for ages. Thank you.
I see. Always wanted to learn binary reading. I have seen so many texts written like this, and I never knew what they meant. Now they cant stop me!
this video is gold! an easy way to learn binary in like 3 minutes!
I love how you explain things. It`s really fun to watch :-)
Ikr
those numbers mason, WHAT DO THEY MEAN
Storm ستورم Hi Hudson‚ I didn't see you there.
Video was very helpful thanks tom scott
This video felt so much more casual and interesting!
***** After seeing a particular episode of Ghost in the shell, I got an idea, and I made a Binary Font. Each character in the font was a 1-block wide column 9 blocks tall where each block was either filled in black. each character was the same width, and there was no gap between characters, and no overlap. the 9th bit is just the bottom one so that it stayed level instead of wavering both the top and bottom.
After doing some test texts with it, I realized that if the font was above 12 point, with a bit of effort, I started to be able to sight-read it. also, you don't need to remember "this combination of digits is this number which corresponds to this letter" you just go "Oh, this symbol is just a replacement for this symbol" which is like R34)1\6 1337 5934< or something it's not difficult as long as you know that a 3 is an E and 6 is a G and < is a K, or 9 is a P, or \ is an N. or in the case of a binary font, knowing that a particular combination of dots is a specific letter. Really it ends up looking like each "character" is a full word, and you recognize full words on sight, rather than letters. and recognizing the shapes of entire words is easier. there's so many words we use again and again. words like and or is if, and words that look like malformed versions of other words, like can and can't, or would and should. it's not nearly as complex as translating numbers to letters with cryptography. its just simple substitution at that point. It also means that if a computer started printing out binary as a grid of dots, you could probably adjust and sight-read it if it contained unicode. Not a totally useless skill. it subverts an internet meme. I CAN read this, It's machine-code!... oh yeah, and its super space efficient on screen or paper. point for point you can fit way more text in one line... like this paragraph is actually only 3 lines in this font at 12 point. youtube is on I *think* an 11 point? yeah. that's space efficient. not totally useless.
Oh yeah, and I did this back in 2011. It's up on FontStruct, it's called gitssac. in fact here's a link, I figure you're the type of person to mess around with this kind of thing. fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/gitssac
Just... thought i'd share.
Odd, I was eating cake while watching this...
+zxin's World Terraria! I suddenly have the urge to get a haircut..
Rakonda I'd love to help but my new Robot Arms® are very inaccurate. ._.
+zxin's World Then I can buy Rocket Launchers?
Rakonda No.
+zxin's World 01101111
A slightly easier way is to memorise the alphabet in hexadecimal so for ASCII letters A-Z are 65-90 and lowercase A-Z are 97-122 so all you need to do is convert each letter into the hexadecimal number then convert that into binary e.g A is 65, 65 in binary is 01000001
im finally using those skills.
in a game.
thank you, tom.
My friend sent me a message in binary. I knew it was a code for something, but had no idea what for or how to solve it or what it was called. Fast forward to half a year later, UA-cam randomly recommends me this video. I was finally able to read his message. It said "I can't believe you bothered to read this."
Life is meaningless
my friend sent me a 16 digit code, my brain hurts
THANKS FOR THIS! HELPED ME UNDERST AND FOR MY EXAM THAT I'LL HAVE IN A 5 MIN
HOW DID THE EXAM GO?
@@esobelisk3110 super great! Got an A cause remembered how to visualize the 1s in every space. Great technique
@@michaelfigueroa8679 that’s great :D
That is really useful to me and for anyone else who reads/writes binary codes.
so u write binary codes but u didnt know how?
Dude this sounds easy the way you explain it. I'm going to learn it so I can pass notes around class In binary ;)
Todomo Games 😂
Todomo Games 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 00111111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101011 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110011 00100000 00111111
THANKS!!!! never noticed it before
Dude thanks so much ur the best now i go and teach my friends :D
1:29 = 3
2:18 = Cake
3 + Cake = Portal 3 confirmed?! :O
No since the cake is a lie
Leo Valdez made me learn Morse Code.
707/Saeyoung made me learn Binary Code.
So I don't see why it's bad to love fictional crushes, mom.
oh look, a fellow geek!
I was just learning Morse Code a few minutes before coming here. I was learning E, T and A. I know binary numbers and I am waiting for an Asian abacus to arrive in the post, so I can practise binary calculations on them.
Jaxx Leo Valdez from Lost Hero?
Ohhh, SAMEE
I found my niche community yo!
Out of all the videos. I give you credit for teaching me binary in tex. 🥰🥰💝
ACSII has 00100000, 20 in hex, for a space. If you're like me, you may notice capital letters have 4 or 5 in hex with the next nibble after it and 6 or 7 in lowercase for letters and 3 with 0-9 coorisponding to that number in ASCII.
Actually, ASCII supports Japanese by remapping normally unused symbols to Katakana via Shift_JIS.
Characters starting at 10100010 (162) to 11011111 (223) are Japanese Characters.
Additionally, anything from 01100001 (97) to 01111010 (122) is the English alphabet lowercase.
Make sure to take note of anything from 97 to 122 when decoding a "secret" binary message if it's not all caps.
But, this is a very useful video for people with no knowledge of binary for decoding ASCII, nevertheless. :D
2:20 LIAR!
@AA - 05BN - Corsair PS (1359) The cake is a lie.
Damn shiz went doen
Damn dude still remembered the comment from 4 years ago
@@Actualshard No, I watched the video to see WTF I was talking about.
@@erictaylor5462 btw why is it a lie :P
Thanks for this... its really helpful
Ok it may be a useless skill but this is about the sixth video I have watched and by far this is the easiest way and I had to teach my 12 yr old granddaughter I know F A about this subject yet this guy made life and her homework that much easier so thank you Tom Scott Legend !!! Bets video for quick lesson on how to ...
2:23 the cake is a lie
I've figured out that if the byte starts with 0011 it's a digit from 0 to 9 when you convert the last four bits to decimal
Wow, this is really neat. The more you know!
Okay, so my question is, how do you know when to distinguish the numbers from letters in binary? What if the intention is to give out the numbers 3, 1, 11, 5 and not 'cake'?
well.
living
under
the
influence
Xui?
Hello Lui!
*Such a Username, Much Binary Very wow*
Meh...
+Three Lui
whats wrong lui?
Very interesting concept. I have a few questions, how is a binary number distinguished with a binary letter? Such as a is 01 and so is 1. I just got introduced into javascripting and so i'm trying to using binary in the google chrome console. It gives me results of 01=1, 010=8, 0100=64. This goes by 8* for each place rather than 2. Why is that? How would I get the console to print in letters?
the data is stored the same way. for example, "a" is stored the same way as number 65. HOWEVER, there is other overhead data surrounding the main data which indicates what type the object is.
when you pass an object to console.log(), it will check the overhead data to determine what type the main data is. based on this data, it will print differently to the console. for example, a number 65 would cause it to print the actual characters '6' and '5'. a string object would cause the log function to print the corresponding characters for each byte. Most other objects passed to console.log() would cause it to readably stringify the object and then print it.
One of those skills I learned at school, binary! I'd forgotten how to do it! Haha x
OH MY GOD HE MADE READING BINARY SO EASY THANK YOUUU
I only wanna read binary because of mystic messanger
LPS RΔΘR™ OMG im doing that tooo!!!
LPS RΔΘR™ Sameee
LPS RΔΘR™ oh my gosh exactly me! That's the reason I learned it xD
LPS RΔΘR™ my children are all over this place ;v;
LPS RΔΘR™ SAME
2019 youtube: heyyo! Lemme just explain reading binary
This is brilliant
god damn it Tom!!! Its too late where I am for me to have cake and now I really bloody want some!!!!!!!
I taught myself this years ago.
:)
The Real Flenuan Pointless effort to learn it.
***** Then why did you watch the video?
The Real Flenuan Because I watch his videos, they are entertaining.
***** Do you think it was a pointless effort for Tom to learn it?
The Real Flenuan I don't know about him, he himself states that i't completely useless though, so I would say yes.
It's easy to learn, takes like 20 seconds. I can personally only read it when I have the alphabet in front of me.
I finally said my crush "I love you."
I will try hehe
@@hannayii4537 'k
Drawko how’d it go?
thanks, good explanation!
Taking into to IT. This was very helpful
omg my while childhood I'd write lyrics of songs in binary when bored and it was the most useless skill i had. glad other people are as useless as me xD
I wanted to know the meaning of the binary when Saeran comes in the chatroom
What a simpler Tom Scott this was
I would love to do a Houston/ command room style escape room with a row of computers in it, and each computer would have clues written out on them in binary. That would be cool
People who ended up here were either mathematicians, programmists or Warhammer fans
"It is though, an almost useless Geek skill" YES! Whoo hoo!
this video is golden
So I think people here would be interested in a code I made using base 5. Use base 5 numbers correlating to each digit:
1 - A
2 - B
3 - C
4 - D
10 - E
Etc
Next add one to every digit (ignore base 5 rules):
2 - A
3 - B
4 - C
5 - D
21 - E
Then make each number correspond to the next letter (A is changed to the number Z was at.) :
212 - A
2 - B
3 - C
4 - D
5 - E
21 - F
When writing it, add 0s in front of the numbers to make every number 3 digits (They are written as 1 because there is one added to every digit):
212 - A
112 - B
113 - C
114 - D
115 - E
121 - F
You can write spaces as 111 or just have a space. I kept forgetting what I had as the special characters/punctuation so just use the normal ones for English. Here’s something to decode:
123115132132135.
how do you know what numbers to add. is it if the actual binary numbers is a 1?
+music maker
Think of this this way: If I give you "5032" in base 10, you know that is:
-1000*5
-100*0
-10*3
-1*2
The same applies in binary. Taking "10010" (I've dropped the leading digits):
-16*1
-8*0
-4*0
-2*1
-1*0
Which is 18.
The same logic applies to all bases, so now you know how to decode hexadecimal (base 16) and octal (base 8) as well.
computermaster124816 your name makes sense now
computermaster124816 how is that 18
@@DuskLegend 16*1=16 and 2*1=2. With the other numbers multiplying to zero, the sum will be 18.
I'm not understanding at all :L
I even tried putting "cake" into a binary translator and at 1:47 you can see he has a segment ending in 01011 but none of them do when I translated in with the translator?
Translators use ASCII, not the alphabet
Would be nice to know what translator you used. Because "A" is 65 which means 01000001 in binary and "a" is 97 which is 01100001 in binary.
Meaning if something ends with 1011 its either 75 or its 107. Both of which are "K"
You can check this. Windows has a direct ascii imput method. All you need to do is hold the left alt button and type in a number using the number pad (does not work with the number row abbove the keyboard for some reason) and let go of the alt button. As such youll notice that the ascii of 1 is a white smiley face and the ascii of 2 is a black smiley face (☺☻). Followed by the 4 card suits (♥♦♣♠) and so on. starting with 65 you get the capital letters and the starting at 97 you get the lower case letters.
Numbers start at 48 which turns to "0" and end with 57 which translates to a "9"
cake is 01100011 01100001 01101011 01100101
I'm going to use it as my daily writing, you can't stop me Tom >:D
this is going completely over my head but its still interesting
01101110011011110111010000100000011001110110010101100101011010110111100100100000011000010111010000100000011000010110110001101100 - yes i did complete this myself took a long time! can you decode - no google'n
01101110 14 n
01101111 15 o
01110100 20 t
00100000
01100111 7 g
01100101 5 e
01100101 5 e
01101011 11 k
01111001 16+8+1=25 y
00100000
01100001 1 a
01110100 16+4=20 t
00100000
01100001 1 a
01101100 12 l
01101100 12 l
Based on the spacing of the 00100000's I'm going to say it is THE CAKE IS A LIE... but since I waited to click reply I'm going to change my answer, as I see where I thought CAKE was you have 5 letters.
So let's see... not geeky at all.
Well, whether it was geeky or not, it was fun for me. Thanks for the challenge.
Your welcome
Challenge accepted.
First, I draw my own mini ASCII table:
...0.1..2..3...4..5...6..7..8..9..A..B..C.D..E..F
4....A.B..C..D..E..F..G..H..I..J..K..L..M.N..O
5.P.Q.R..S..T..U..V..W..X.Y..Z
Had to put dots in there to align it since this font isn't monospaced.
Then I break the binary into nibbles and convert to hex
0110 6
1110 7*2 14 E
0110 6
1111 F
0111 7
0100 4
0010 2
0000 0
0110 6
0111 7
0110 6
0101 5
0110 6
0101 5
0110 6
1011 3+8 11 B
0111 7
1001 9
0010 2
0000 0
0110 6
0001 1
0111 7
0100 4
0010 2
0000 0
0110 6
0001 1
0110 6
1100 3*4 12 C
0110 6
1100 C
I get this: 6E 6F 74 20 67 65 65 6B 79 20 61 74 20 61 6C 6C
Break that down into bytes, and use memory to quickly convert obvious ones like 20 (space) 41/61 (A/a) - 45/65 (E/e), and use the mini ASCII table for non-obvious ones.
6E n
6F o
74 t
20 _
67 g
65 e
65 e
6B k
79 y
20 _
61 a
74 t
20 _
61 a
6C l
6C l
"not geeky at all"
So now I will give you this challenge. I manually encoded this message in octal.
250641413502356310060554330260403146755432671441
And of course, show your work as we (me and ABitOfTheUniverse ) have, no Googling for auto-convert tools.
Good luck!
Edit: funny thing, I just tested the string out on two different "octal to ascii converters", and it broke both of them! In addition, the octal they came out with when I put the original string in, was broken, so, wondering if I messed up, I manually decoded the string myself, and sure enough, I got exactly the same string that I had originally encoded. So the on line converters are broken!
Not geeky at all 👏👏👏
not geeky at all
I read the title as "How to read a text in a library." Ooops...
Currently studying computer science for A levels. This brought back way more stress than it should have from GCSEs
Thank you for teaching me how to read in binary
That binary system is one of the question at high school entrance exam's in Turkey 🤦
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