Subj : A binary question
To   : comp.programming
From : Augustus
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 11:47 pm

I'm not good with computers or programming, so this seemed to be the 
right place to ask this.  In a pictorial representation, is the binary

10001001

is the same as

1000
1001

?

I suppose the real question is whether or not binary is read from left 
to right.

Thanks!

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