Decoding Binary

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*Quick Note- 0's = No and 1's = Yes*

0100100001100101011011000110110001101111

You look above thinking how should I do this. First off you should break it up. Every 8 characters you should make space.

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111

Now you figure out the 0's and 1's by assigning it a number. It's decreasing starting at 128 and take half of each number until it reaches 1.
128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1
So in simple terms the first digit is 128 digit the second digit is 64 the third equals 32 the fourth equals 16 etc. until you reach 1.

Now you look and for all the 1's inside the Group of digits and add them together.

so the math your doing is:

01001000 = 0+64+0+0+8+0+0+0 = 72
01100101 = 0+64+32+0+0+4+0+1 = 101
01101100 = 0+64+32+0+8+4+0+0 = 108
01101100 its repeated 2 times = 108
01101111 = 0+64+32+0+8+4+2+1= 111

Now your done figuring out what all the groups equal you get a ASCII table (http://www.asciitable.com/)
and match all the numbers accordingly to the Dec. Column.

72 = H
101= e
108 = l
108 = l
111 = o

That line of Binary is Hello.

I know there are translators on the internet but I wrote this for understanding of Binary code for whatever reasons it might be. This is my first article so don't flame to much :D