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Binary code: The base-2 number system. Occasionally known as the "language" of computers. However, it's not usually spoken. But when it is, it's this trope. It's usually used jokingly as robots "native" language.
However, "binary" is not a language: Raw binary data has no meaning without a structure describing what it is. The "binary language" could be anything from "English text encoded in ASCII" to "Ideas, each attributed to a 16-bit number".
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== [[Film]] ==
* The old modem like chirping emitted by droids in ''[[
** Interestingly, thanks to a throwaway line from C-3PO early in ''A New Hope'', we know that different droids (and devices) have different binary languages -- and that at least some may be related to each other the way that Romance Languages are related to each other and Latin:
{{quote|"Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary loadlifters—very similar to your vaporators in most respects."}}
== [[Literature]] ==
* Ashley, and all the other aliens, in Jasper Fforde's ''[[Nursery Crime]]'' series have binary as their native language. They also play binary [[Scrabble]].
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* Joe from ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* In the ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' song "The Humans Are Dead", there is a binary solo.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Mass Effect
* When {{spoiler|Pyrrhon}} from ''[[Kid Icarus
* Volt in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=493 Reunited] squirrel girls aka "[[Mad Scientist|Think Tank]]" in ''[[Sequential Art (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[
** There's also the Time Code from ''Bender's Big Score'', a long list of zeros and ones that is said like an incantation to send the speaker back in time.
** In "Godfellas", the galaxy that may or may not be God signals Bender in binary. Bender mentions that he only knows enough binary to ask where the bathroom is ([[Negative Continuity|which contradicts the above]], but hey, [[Rule of Funny]]).
* In an episode of ''[[
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