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binary system

A numbering system well suited to use by computers. All of the information placed into a computer is in binary form, i.e., numbers made up of zeros and ones (0's and 1's). In this system each place in a binary number represents a power of 2 (i.e., the number of times 2 is to be multiplied by itself).

Synonym: binary code

binary system

any system where two alternatives occur, as in some taxonomic keys (see KEY, IDENTIFICATION).

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The white dwarf component of a binary system slowly and relentlessly sips up the stellar material of its companion star.

Cannibalism among the stars

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Krzemenski (1974) declared that the X-ray star Cen X-3 is a component of an eclipsing binary system consists of the star Cen X-3 and a giant optical star of the spectral type B0, with optical magnitude 13.

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The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) said the optical-infrared telescope located on Hawaii Island's 4,205-meter Mauna Kea confirmed the binary system near HD 130948A, a bright fixed star some 58 light years from Earth, with its adaptive optics (AO) system last May.

Subaru telescope observes binary system of 'brown dwarfs'

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Phase equilibria and crystallography of ceramic oxides

15 K for this ternary system and for the binary system o-xylene + hexan-2-one.

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The Internet's earliest roots are found in the 1836 invention of the telegraph, which revolutionized human communications with a dot-and-dash system that's not so far removed from the binary system used in today's computers.

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Ironically, the binary system we associate with computers was around long before the first silicon chip was ever etched.

Bound by more than binaries

In a binary system A-B the maximum effect occurs at [A.

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Toshiba's Glassburn says his firm's binary system has been successful with commodity resins, PET, PBT, SAN, nylon, acrylic, and acetal, including glass- and mineral-filled compounds.

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Leibniz also showed that the binary system based on 2 had its uses.

Binary system

The rubber vulcanizates obtained by the accelerator binary system were subjected to thermal aging at 90 [degrees] C for different periods up to six days.