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To answer this question, we need to do a quick review of our numbering system.

The standard numbers we know and love are usually called "base 10" numbers.

Base 10 means that every tenth number adds a new significant digit.

In the binary number system, numbers can be represented with a series of zeros and ones.

For example:

0,1,2,3,4,5... (base 10 numbers)

would be written as:

0,1,10,11,100... (binary numbers)

Binary numbers are useful because they can be represented as 1 or 0, TRUE or FALSE or HIGH or LOW in computers (which have a harder time understanding base 10 in hardware).

A bit can be thought of a single digit in a binary number.

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