How BITs and BYTEs works?

BIT stands  for Binary Digits. To understand it, lets first understand how decimal number works. Decimal numbers are combination of few digits. A digit is a single place that can hold numerical values between 0 and 9.
For example in the four digit number 3427, 7 fills the "1s place", while 2 fills the "10s place", 4 fills the "100s place and 3 fills the "1000s place". So we can express the number 3427 as :
(3*1000)+(4*100)+(2*10)+(7*1)=3000+400+20+1=3427

We can also express it in the powers of 10 as 
(3*10^3)+(4*10^2)+(2*10^1)+(7*10^0)=3000+400+20+1=3427:
Decimal number are therefore " base-10 number systems".

Computer operates on "base-2 number system" and it is also known as "binary number system" as it has only two possible values "0 and 1" unlike decimal numbers having values "0 till 9". Each is called as bits.

For the 1110 binary number we can find the corresponding decimal number in the way we did for 3427 as:
(1*2^3)+(1*2^2)+(1*2^1)+(0*2^0)=8+4+2+0=14.

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Fourteen Reason Why The Earth is Going to End on December 21, 2012

It is the dooms day that is foretold in the Mayan Calendar, the Chinese Oracle I Ching and even an intenet based prophetic software program, 2012 the date that is prophesized as the end of the world. I can't say if world is really gonna end on 21,12 2012 but following are the 14 reasons what makes people  believe that the world will end.
But is there any science behind it? Could ancient oracles truely predic the future? Can you believe it? The answer could affect all of us.

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Good old lessons in teamwork

The Tortoise And The Hare

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster.

They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

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Who are savants?

Most of you might not have heard the word "savant" and may not be knowing what it means. I did not know either before I watched one the documentary titled, "Extraordinary People-The Boy with the incredible Brain". The documentary movie about savant Daniel Tammet who is known as "Brain Man".

Savant  Daniel Tammet(Brain Man)

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Lost Generation by jonathan reed

Lost Generation is a poem written by Jonathan Reed, originally appearing as an entrant in AARP's U@50 Video Contest. When first read, the poem seems to be a pessimistic monologue of the current generation, an echo of sentiments often found when looking at news reports and articles. The last line of the poem, and the presentation of the poem in the original video, suggests reading it in reverse. When read backwards the poem paints a polarizing view, showing a brighter interpretation of the future. The poem follows a read-and-reverse pattern. Jonathan Reed is a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is in his early twenties.

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sunday, 30 October was very short.......

On weekends, neither I do go to the bed early nor do I rise early. Today I thought it was very early for me to get away from my lovely bed. However, clock showed 1.30 pm (IST) already. Stretching my limbs and hugging my soft pillow, with my eyes still half opened, spent around 10 minutes leaning on the wall. As I peeped outside through the window glass, weather seemed damn scorching. Sun shined freakishly hot. Room was very warm it was making me feel drowsy. Ceiling Fan, the only cooling device in my room above me was wonderfully throwing me the soothing airs though. I stood up and set it to turn at high speed. I tried not to hit back to the bed.

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20 Interesting facts about Tigers

Tiger is a great animal with lots of interesting facts, but still human are poaching and bringing down the tiger population.

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Truth or Dare game

Few days back, I, with my friends, right after BSA gathering, was there in Hyderabad city, popularly known to be the capital city of Andhra Pradesh. Coming to the fun, it was absolutely outstanding part of my living there with my friends. Enjoyment pictured out to be perfect. Particularly on 17, Monday night has amazingly proved to be the one of heartwarming incidents in my life. More than an hour, we were with Truth or Dare game. I would like to write something about my observations and experiences that I got after I played it for the first time.

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Interesting facebook chat

Today, everyone enjoys browsing one of the most easily accessible and world-famous websites, Facebook. It has numerous features and fascinating applications which people will always like to use it. Of all, who would not like to pass the time chatting in this website? To be frank I do enthusiastically like to sit around many hours chatting and connecting with my friends. Of many things I do in Facebook, I would like to say that I love chatting with people the most.

One fine day (I do not remember when it exactly happened), unexpectedly, I have just connected with my very old friend (my senior) through chat. Let me introduce him. He is Cheten Norbu and we call him simply cheten. He is quite a jocular person. In addition, I even do not remember what made us to talk about our past. We exchanged our experiences and happenings we had during our schooling days. It was interesting hearing about his childhood as a student. I would like to cover here exclusively about his schooldays.

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