Unary vs. Binary — What's the Difference?

Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

Relating to, composed of, or involving two things.

Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

Relating to, using, or denoting a system of numerical notation that has 2 rather than 10 as a base.

(mathematics) The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.

The binary system of notation

(information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

Something having two parts.

Consisting of or involving a single element or component;

Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components; twofold.

Of or relating to a system of numeration having 2 as its base.

Of or relating to a system of encoding data using only 0's and 1's.

(Chemistry) Consisting of or containing only two kinds of atoms.

Of or employing two comparatively nontoxic chemicals that combine to produce a deadly poison

(Music) Having two sections or subjects.

A number system having 2 as its base.

A file that contains the executable version of a computer program.

A binary star.

Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.

(logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.

Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.

Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.

(computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).

(comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.

A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.

The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

(computing) binary file; a file consisting of data other than human-readable text.

(astronomy) binary star.

Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.

A system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation

Of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base;

Consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two;