From the course: Windows Server 2016: IP Addressing
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Working with binary numbers - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: IP Addressing
Working with binary numbers
- [Instructor] In order to truly understand how to work with IP addresses, you have to remember that technically it's a 32-bit binary number and so you have to understand how to look at it as a binary number. And this for many people can be very scary, right? 'Cause typically as humans, we grew up learning how to work with decimal numbers and now we have these computers that are looking at binary numbers and we have to understand how the computer thinks. So I'm going to do my best here to simplify this and hopefully make working with binary numbers a little bit less scary. All right, so start things off, I have a number on the screen. I want to know what is this number, right? This number listed on the screen, what is the number? I'm asking you right now. Please answer, and it's not a trick question. That's right, the number is 3482. Right, you look at that, you see 3482. But how do we know that? Well we know…
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