Convert binary to text
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 in binary
Hello
How it gets there
- Each group is one byte
- 01001000 → 72 01100101 → 101 01101100 → 108 01101100 → 108 01101111 → 111
- Bytes become characters
- Decoded as UTF-8, so a multi-byte sequence forms a single character.
Why the working is here
Every other converter of this kind prints the answer and stops. A base is a positional system, so the answer is a sum you can check: each digit is multiplied by the base raised to its position, and the results are added. Going the other way is repeated division, reading the remainders upwards. Neither is a black box, and this page refuses to be one.