And just like in the decimal system, 0 as many zeros on the left that you want.

就像在十进制中，任意放置。

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But all of you in this room probably remember what we technically call the base 10 system or decimal system because back in grade school or the like, you learned to count and add and subtract numbers by way of columns.

但是，在座的每一位可能都记得,这在小学的时候学的,以10为进制的系统或者十进制系统,通过数列方式学习数数和加减法。

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If we need a 7, this is the ones column, the twos, fours, eights, so here are our columns and this was our decimal system a moment ago, and I wanna express the number 7 and the only digits 0 I now have access to are zero and one, whereas, in decimal, dec meaning 10.

如果你需要7，这是一位，二位，四位，八位，这是位数,刚才说的十进制的位数，我想表达7而且,只能采用数字1与，在十进制中，dec意思是十。

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