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Binary Division



> > >    name         geoffry
> > >    status       student
> > >    age          20s
>
> > >    Question -   Can you show me how to do binary division?
> > >Example:
> > >1011001/100011
>
>You can do it in exactly the same way you'd do division in base ten.
>
>         _____10.1
>100011 )1011001.0
>         1000110.0
>         -------
>           10011.0
>           10001.1
>           -------
>               1.1
>                .
>                .
>                .
>
>Note the binary 0.1 is one half, binary 0.01 is one quarter, etc.
>
>Tim Mooney

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