I found this on a site,

Look at the table. One bit counts to two numbers, two bits count to four numbers, three bits to eight numbers, four bits to 16 numbers, five to 21, six to 64, seven to 128 and finally, one byte (8 bits) counts to 256 numbers.

Decimal Binary Representation
0 0
1 1
2 10
3 11
4 100
5 101
6 110
7 111
8 1000
9 1001
10 1010
11 1011
12 1100
13 1101
14 1110
15 1111

To me it seems like what the info on top is saying is conflicting with its gragh, on top it SAYS 2 bits represents 4 numbers which makes sence but the graph says 2 bits it can represents 10 numbers.

Is it that this graph is bad or I am not getting what it means?

thanks
more info here>http://music.northwestern.edu/links/projects/midi/pages/undstdbh.htmlSorry.. I don't see the problem.
1 b can count up to (not including) 2
2 b can count up to (not including) 4
3 b can count up to (not including) 8
etc

don't forget to include 0 as a valid number.

You rarely go singly though.. it goes 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and on.  Can you give us a link to the site to see it first hand?Heres the link http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes2.htm
this is not the only site that mentions this too.

Sorry but I don't uderstand what they are saying in the link, mostly once I get to the part where it menctions the 0 - 4, there is no 4 in the binary language of 1  and 0.

Im mostly confused on what makes the decimal 10 , 1010 or the decimal 11, 1011. Could the decimal 10 also be 1011?

also whats the b in your post joleen?Sorry.. since we were talking about bits I thought I'd use b instead.  b = bit.

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Could the decimal 10 also be 1011?

Just remember, there are 10 kinds of people in the world.  Those that understand binary and those that don't.