Blog Post #10 - Why Binary Video

I learned the different types of base systems.  There is the base 2 system that uses the two numbers 0 and 1.  There is the base 5 system which uses 5 numbers including 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Also, base 10 uses the ten digits.  Binary, the type of system we are looking at, is used for computers because it is the most accurate because the there is more space for the pointer to detect a number rather than having a computer pick up a number before it makes it to the correct spot, which would mess up the counting.  Binary is used because it is the least amount of numbers that can be used while still being able to create multiple numbers.  If only zero, the first digit, was used, every number would equal the same outcome, and a computer would not be able to tell the difference.  We need our computers to have a system that allows them to be exact.  With the binary system, computers can not mess up unless they are broken.  I also learned there is no base-1 numerical system.  I did not understand what the guy in the video was saying about the number two when he said "two is the difference between sameness and differentness."  That is the only thing from the video I did not understand, so I do not have another question.  Something that I would like to know is how many times in a binary system is the previous number doubled?  In our class we went out to seven places when we doubled 32 and got 64.  Do the numbers continue to get doubled until infinity inside of computers?