sunny
Reputation: 189
What's the need for different ways to represent data using the binary system?
There are many ways to represent data using binary like - unsigned, signed magnitude, 1s/2s complement, offset-M, floating-point, ASCII, and Unicode. Why do we need so many different ways?
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