Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Representation (Section 8 - No. 34)
What is the role of remainders in the process of converting a decimal number to binary?
They represent the coefficients of each power of 2 in the binary representation.
They are discarded in order to calculate the binary value.
They show how much is left to convert in the base-10.
They are used to determine when to stop the division.
Paliwanag
The remainders (when dividing repeatedly by 2) form the binary representation, where each represents the digit's value (0 or 1) in each position.