title="how computers count";
click="computer numbers competition";
link="binary.html?7";
p[i++]="What does 10 stand for? Press Next when you've decided.";
p[i++]="10 stands for TEN - if you said anything else, you probably don't need this session!";
p[i++]='Actually 10 means one ten and no units. But why "ten"?';
p[i++]="Would you believe - because of our hands!";
p[i++]="If our hands had twelve digits instead of ten, 10 would probably mean twelve!";
p[i++]="A computer doesn't have any fingers - just two thumbs.";
p[i++]="So what does 10 mean to a computer? You shouldn't proceed till you're sure.";
p[i++]="10 means TWO to a computer.";
p[i++]="How would a computer represent three?";
p[i++]="If you said 11, you've probably got a computer helping you! But you're right!";
p[i++]='To us 100 is one hundred. Recall that the "1" is in the "hundreds" column.';
p[i++]="But why is it a hundreds column?";
p[i++]="Because one hundred is TEN times TEN.";
p[i++]="So what do you think 100 means to a computer?";
p[i++]="If you said FOUR, you're doing very well. 100 means FOUR to a computer.";
p[i++]="Humans have a hundreds column, a tens column and a units column. A computer has ...";
p[i++]="A computer has a fours column, a twos column and a units column.";
p[i++]="Try to count up to seven like a computer:";
p[i++]="1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111";
p[i++]="You can get lots of fun practice with the computer numbers competition - see below.";