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You might say, “I am sending this packet across the network” or “I am sending this firmware update across this microcontroller,” hoping it arrives. “I … Read More

This page takes an ancient digital trick and makes it visible: a parity bit calculator. A parity bit are an extra bit added to your … Read More

Once you look at each bit in isolation, though, bit shifting looks easy: just multiply by powers of two (a left shift) or divide by … Read More

Bitwise XOR compares two number digit-by-digit; if they don’t match, it return a 1 (flipping a flag). That means that the XOR operator is good … Read More

In computing terms, the AND function is a strict form of logical calculation. Imagine it’s like a gatekeeper who poses one simple question for each … Read More

Octal is decimal in disguise. Humans has ten fingers, which is why we do everything in base 10 every day, but computers think in sequence … Read More

This page’s binary to hexadecimal converter is realy just a nibble grouping trick, pad your binary string, cut it up into chunks of 4-bits, replace … Read More

Computers are binary creatures, meaning they think in ones and zeros, but staring at sixty-four consecutive ones and zeros is a terrible waste of an … Read More

Binary (a.k.a. “base-2“) uses nothing but ones and zeroes, and computers speak this language. At least it makes sense once you get used to it. … Read More

For anyone who has built out a surround (Eyefinity) setup, at some point they hit the limitation of bezel. The plastic that separates your monitor … Read More