Decimal Binary
base 10 base 2
10 digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 2 digits: 0,1
columns/positions' weights are the powers of 10: columns/positions' weights are the powers of 2:
... 104, 103, 102, 101, 100 ... 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 21, 20
...10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1 ... 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
Examples
7306= 1101011=
7 1000's, 3 hundreds, no tens, 6 ones
7*1000 + 3*100 + 0*10 + 6*1 1*64 + 1*32 + 0*16 + 1*8 + 0*4 + 1*2 + 1*1
the 64, the 32, the 8, the 2, the 1