Subject: Dotted Decimal Notation
Author: AllAboutIP
Posted on: 12/14/2005 02:35:04 AM
IP address is a 32-bit stream of 0s and 1s and the following is a typical one:
1000000 00001011 00001010 00010110
which is tough for humans to memorize it. For this reason, IP address are often translated into a more readable format as four decimal integers separated by decimal points, where each integer gives the value (0~255) of one octet of the IP address. For example, the above one can be written as
128.11.10.24
Spencer
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