How to use it
- Type in the Text box or paste binary into the Binary box; the other side fills in.
- Copy the result.
- For numbers, type in any of the four bases and the others update.
Questions and answers
How does text become binary?
Each character is turned into bytes (UTF-8) and each byte is written as 8 bits. “Hi” is 01001000 01101001.
How do I read binary as text?
Paste the 0s and 1s in groups of 8, with or without spaces. Each group is one byte; letters with accents use two bytes.
How do I convert binary to decimal?
Type it in the Binary field of the number converter: 101010 is 42. Each digit is a power of two, from right to left: 1, 2, 4, 8…
What is hexadecimal used for?
It writes bytes in a shorter form, two digits per byte, as in color codes (#FF8800) and memory addresses.