A number system includes the number of independent digits used in the number system (the base), the place values of the different digits constituting the number and the maximum numbers that can be written with the given number of digits. The Binary Number System:A computer system uses bits (binary digits) to denote values. It uses the binary number system to store data. Each digit (0 or 1) is a bit thus the binary number 10110110 is a binary number having 8 bits. The binary number system with only two independent digits, 0 and 1, is a base-2 number system. All larger binary numbers are represented in terms of 0 and 1. A binary number can easily be converted to a decimal by multiplying each digit by a power of 2. Therefore, a binary number system uses two numbers to represent data in the computer. Bicentennial: A bicentennial is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier. Biometrics: Biometrics are physical or behavioral human characteristics that can be used to digitally identify a person to grant access to systems, devices, or data. Byte: A byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason, it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. ?