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Binary Data is a computer file that contains binary data (0 or 1)
Binary data may be described:
- at the bit level (base 2)
- at the byte level (base 2 - 8 bit)
- at the hexadecimal level (base 16)
- at the integer level (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
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Type
Machine code
Machine code is binary data, a long string of 0 and 1 which correspond to instructions the processor understands. It can be seen as the output of a compiler. See for instance: the bin format output of the nasm assembler.
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Data
All data are stored as binary data (in file or other storage system)
Conversion
To text
To represent binary data in printable characters, you need to use a map that
- link binary byte values
- to a character.
The map can be:
- a character set mapping table (if this is a text file)
- a known mapping such as:
- or create your own character binary map