🌱 How to count

Completed 2021-12-14 (for the second time, originally read ~2011)

Small book by Panic co-founder Steven Frank

Short, simple explanation of how computers count.

I wish he had finished this series.

Some quick references from the book

Binary	Decimal	Power of 2
1	1	20
10	2	21
100	4	22
1000	8	23
10000	16	24
100000	32	25
1000000	64	26
10000000	128	27

Decimal	128	64	32	16	8	4	2	1
Binary	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1

Any 4 bits can be represented by a single hex digit

Binary	Hexadecimal
0000	0
0001	1
0010	2
0011	3
0100	4
0101	5
0110	6
0111	7
1000	8
1001	9
1010	a
1011	b
1100	c
1101	d
1110	e
1111	f