Machine language is binary. This means that machine language has a binary value, or two values, a combination that represents data. These two statuses are "active" which is represented by 1 and "inactive", represented by "0" . Therefore each number (value) is represented by 0 and 1 in this number system.
| Octal | Binary |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0000 |
| 1 | 0001 |
| 2 | 0010 |
| 3 | 0011 |
| 4 | 0100 |
| 5 | 0101 |
| 6 | 0110 |
| 7 | 0111 |
| 10 | 1000 |
| 11 | 1001 |
| 12 | 1010 |
| 13 | 1011 |
| 14 | 1100 |
| 15 | 1101 |
| 16 | 1110 |
| 17 | 1111 |