IP Addressing - How To Count In Binary

"There are 10 kind of people in this world. The kind that know binary, and the kind that don't."
It's likely that you've heard the common fact that binary is a language computers, and other digital devices use to function, made up of only 1's and 0's. This is true! Have you ever wondered how it works though?

Here is a simple way to count in binary, that most I.T. Professionals have to use when subnetting a network.

There are 8 digits [bits] that you will use for most the most common form of binary counting.

00000000

Each bit has a value.

To give the bit a value, you simply change the digit to the number 1.
For example,

00001000 = 8
01000000 = 64
00000001 = 1
00000011 = 3

-and so on.

You may have noticed, with this method, you can only count up to 255.

That is because 255 is the maximum value representable in a standard 8 digit binary number.

To further explain subnetting, and it's relation to binary, and this post, an article will be written at a later date. When it has been written, this post will be updated with a link to it.

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