*in binary you use 0's and 1's in succession in responce to what bit it is.
*binary conversion falls under the princible of 2^x, where x is equal to which number in the binary sequence it is, from left to right.
examples:
00000000: is equal to 0
00000001: is equal to 1
10000000: is equal to 128
11111111: is equal to 255