This article explains how to read simple unsigned binary numbers. It also provides information about signed binary numbers, which can represent both positive and negative numbers.
How to read text in binary format
"Reading" binary code usually means translating a binary number into a base 10 (decimal) number that humans are familiar with. This conversion is simple enough to perform in your head once you understand how binary works.
Each digit location in a binary number has a specific value if the digit is not zero. Once you have all of those values, you simply add them together to get the base 10 (decimal) value of the binary number.
To see how this works, let's take the binary number 11001010.
