hey, my name is daniel baird and im an artist currently working on a sculpture that has to do with the conversion of a simple arithmetic calculator into binary code. im not too sure on how to make this conversion or if it is based solely on the specific programming language that something is written in. any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system That should give a decent idea has to how to convert regular numbers to their binary equivilent. The main difference in binary in computers themselves is as to which order the binary digits are read in, left to right or right to left (known as big endian and little endian). The wikipedia article explains it pretty well.