title: How does a computer store decimal point values?
body: <p>I have a few questions:</p>
  
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  <li><p>Computers only use 1s and 0s to represent numbers. Then how does it represent a decimal point like 5.512.</p></li>
  <li><p>The computer doesn't know whether we are entering an ASCII value or just a random binary for it to process. In earlier days, people used to program using hex and binary. How would they achieve in outputting a character on the screen. Apart from that how does the computer understand that 65(decimal) is not a number but a capital A?</p></li>
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