Binary Code for “I Love You”

“I love you” in binary

Using standard 8-bit ASCII, “I love you” is: 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101. That’s “I”, a space, then “love”, a space, then “you” — each character encoded as one byte (the 00100000 groups are the spaces).

How it’s built

Each character has an ASCII code — “I” is 73, “l” is 108, “o” is 111 — and that number is written in base-2 and padded to 8 bits. Capital and lowercase letters differ, which is why “I” and “i” would look different in binary.

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