WordNet
n. any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1)
Usage examples of "binary notation".
He even makes a mathematics in-joke about this being one of the earliest practical applications of binary notation.
Then we can write, using binary notation, A=(00), C=(01), G=(10), T=(11).
The book went on at length concerning the bottomless significance of this symbol, but the only meaning that mattered to Daniel was 000011, which was how the pattern of broken and unbroken lines translated to binary notation.
Kelly went through the rest of the problem, giving Max raw data and the operations to be performed, but not translating the figures into the binary notation the computer required.
WE GUARANTEE YOUR SAFETY ON OUR NEUTRAL TERRITORY FORTY SIXTH DEGREE LATITUDE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY NINTH LONGITUDE OUR SPACEPORT ACCORDING YOUR GRID OF MERCATOR WE ARE SOVEREIGN NEUTRAL OUR NEIGHBORS ALERTED HAVE APPROVED APPROACH OF YOUR PROBES WITHOUT PRIOR CONDITIONS GIVE US VIA NEODYMIUM LASER TIME OF ARRIVAL OF YOUR LANDER IN UNITS OF PLANET REVOLUTION BINARY NOTATION WE AWAIT WE WELCOME YOU.
What's more, almost none of them work by binary notation - the normal method for computers - because that's just yes/no stuff.
He puts in the numbers he has guessed, anyway, which is a matter of converting them to binary notation and then physically incarnating those ones and zeros on a neat row of stainless-steel toggle switches: down for zero, up for one.