Numbers 151
1210 LOCATE 1,11:PRINT" 7	6	5	4
z_	1	0	10 10 10 10 1
O	10 10 10	9
1220 PRINT"	1	0	0
0	9
1230 PRINT: PRINT:PRINT"Any number raise
to the power of 1 is itself and any n umber raised to power 0 is always 1." 1240 LOCATE 13,20:PRINT"PRESS ANY KEY" 1250 X$=INKEY$:IF X$=" THEN 1250
1260 B=10:GOTO 500
1270 REM ** BINARY EXPLANATION **
1280 INK 1,20
1290 CLS:PRINT "BINARY SYSTEM	(BAS
E	2)"
1300 LOCATE 1,4:PRINT"Mechanical and e lctrical switches aresimplest and most
reliable when theyhave only 2 poss ible states:ON and OFF"
1310 LOCATE 1,8:PRINT"From our notes on the decimal system we can see that BI NARY needs only two symbols [O] and El ] to count up to any equivalent decimal value."
1720 LOCATE 1,13:PRINT"Using the [OFF] state of a switch to represent [0] a nd the [ON] state to represent [l], it is possible to	represent any dec
imal number using very simple devices." 1730 LOCATE 12,22:PRINT"PRESS [ANY KEY]" 1340 X$=INKEY$:IF X$=" THEN GOTO 1340 1350 B=2:GOTO 500
1360 REM ** HEXADECIMAL **
1370 INK 1,8
1380 CLS:PRINT"	HEXADECIMAL
(Base 16)"
1390 LOCATE 1,5:PRINT"Computers work b est in BINARY.
Unfortunately Huma ns do not! 1e7 decimal is 101 11010 in Binary!"
1400 LOCATE 1,10:PRINT"This computer use s 8 Bit Bytes. Each byte holds n umbers from CO to 255 or 11111111 Binar
Y ]