Binary

//ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹɪ//

"Binary" in a Sentence (28 examples)

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

The “Book of Changes” presents the oldest binary encoding.

It's a binary world; the computer might be his paradigm. And many engineers seem to aspire to be binary people within in.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who can understand binary and those who can't.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't understand binary.

Sirius is a binary star system. Sirius B, Sirius A's faint companion, is the white dwarf closest to our solar system. It is about as big as our earth.

The number 2015 is represented as 11111011111 in binary.

Sirius is a binary star system and is about 8.6 light-years distant from our sun.

In the world, there are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those that don't.

In mathematics, the binary logarithm (log₂ n) is the power to which the number 2 must be raised to obtain the value n.

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Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

It's not binary. You can be decent and gifted at the same time.

Near-synonym: Boolean

binary star

Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.

A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.

Division of reals is a binary operation.

He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.

He has a very binary understanding of gender.

Yo… you've been staring at a computer screen way too long, homie. Life's not that binary.

To further unpack trans and gender-diverse embodiment, requires one to unpack the depth of the discourse as it relates to both binary and non-binary people (Hofman, 2012). It necessitates deeper engagement as to the politics of passing, not passing, societal assimilation and non-assimilation.

The correlation between warmth and cold is an internal one where the existence of one depends on and is defined by the other. Hence, the yin-yang binary as a correlative binary of light-shade or warmth-cold [...]

The “in” versus “out” of this sociological model certainly carries to the admittedly simplistic binary of “good” versus “bad” of stereotypes in fictional works and the scholarly approaches to them.

As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a species rendered as Other, even in comparison to the various beings populating the gameworld. Characters recognize and struggle against prejudice and limited understanding of Asari customs, culture, and practices. These gameworld features allow for a space where awareness and exploration of sexualities outside of the heterosexual binary can take place.

As our initial exposure to the base 10 number system consisted of learning how to count, it also makes sense that we might begin by learning how to count in binary.

Now that you have a high-level idea of what binaries look like and how they work, you're ready to dive into a real binary format.

As discussed in Section 5.1, the study of the properties of planets in binaries and the search for differences between the characteristics of these objects and those of planets orbiting single stars, is crucial to the understanding of the role of binarity in planet formation and evolution.

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