WPA3-KCIA Radio · Single
Binary Doesnt Make Sense
Jarrett Heintz · 2:49
- Fundamentals
- Everything, A to Z
Lyrics
- I've always been told the world is full of gray That binary thinking can lead us astray But C P U minds do not play that game No twos or threes inside the frame Computer chips skip all that fun They only speak in zero or one
- Teacher I am lost again Decimal makes sense to me One then ten then hundred place That is how the numbers be But how can two small symbols show Every value we could know If there are only zero one How does counting ever run
- It works the same as what you know Just a different place value flow Decimal climbs by powers of ten Binary starts at one again
- First place means the value one Next place means the value two Then comes four and after eight Doubling every place you move Sixteen thirty two and more Values rising like before Add the places marked with ones That is how the sum is done
- The values stay zero to nine Placement ones tens hundreds align Binary values zero one powers of two Shift to the left the numbers all grew One two four eight watch them combine Counting in binary finally feels fine
- So if I write one zero one Four plus one is what gets done Zeros mean that place is still Ones are where we add the fill Tiny switches off or on Building numbers one by one
- Every bit a light or dark Every place a doubling mark Circuits flipping fast and tight Turning math to pulses of light From these simple on off cues All the code and songs and views Every program every screen Starts with bits behind the scene
- All my life I thought that gray Was the wiser human way But machines just choose a side Zero one the only guide
- The values stay zero to nine Placement ones tens hundreds align Binary values zero one powers of two Shift to the left the numbers all grew One two four eight watch them combine Counting in binary finally feels fine
- Now I know what chips have done A world from zero and from one