It should be noted that in a binary number, the bit to the extreme left is called the Most Significant Bit (MSB), and the bit to the extreme right end is known as the Least Significant Bit (LSB). Binary numbers are written as 110 2, 10 2 and are mostly used in computers for programming or coding since the computer understands the language of only the binary digits, that is, 0 and 1. A bit has a single binary value which is either 1 or 0. The smallest unit of data in a computer is called a bit, which is the abbreviated form of 'binary digit'. The binary number system is a number system with base 2 in which numbers are represented only by two digits, 0 and 1. In other words, if the base of a number is not written, it is considered to be a decimal number. It is the most commonly known number system in which the numbers can be identified easily even if the base is not written. Decimal numbers are written as 45 10, 118 10, and so on. For example, if we take 36 as a decimal number, here, 3 is ten times more than 6. It also uses a decimal point to represent decimal fractions.
It is also known as the Hindu-Arabic number system in which each digit has a position and it is ten times more significant than the previous digit.
The decimal number system is a number system that represents a number with a base of 10 and uses 10 symbols - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Let us understand the decimal number system and the binary number system and then move on to the conversion of decimal to binary. Similarly, the decimal number system has a base of 10, because it has 10 digits to represent a number. For example, the binary number system has a base of 2 since it uses only two digits to represent a number. All number systems have a base which is determined by the total number of digits that are used in the number system.