Disk Probe tutorial, part 1: Binary files, partitions Have you ever needed to view the contents of a binary file, or modify one to make error messages more informative?

Conversion of binary to decimal numbers is often needed in firmware. And it’s done easily enough if multiplication and division by ten are acceptable.

Learn about digital data and how computers understand it, including binary, denary, hexadecimal numbers, units of data, character sets and logic gates.