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The internal use of binary numbers forces computers to manipulate types of data that have sizes like
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and so on.
These numbers are known as powers of 2. For example,
64 = 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 26
64 equals 2 raised to the 6th power. The binary value of 64 is 1000000.
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