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Latest revision as of 17:23, 16 December 2018

Formally, binary refers to the base-2 number system, which is used at the hardware level of essentially all computers. It can also refer to numbers or other data stored in this form.

Informally, it is a short slang term for object code, the low-level form of a computer program which the hardware in the CPU can interpret directly.