I probably get short changed all the time the left hemisphere of my brain is a walnut. I am poor at logic.
I highly doubt any of that, you probably just suck at math like practically everyone does
There's a lot of misunderstood neuroscience in terms of the "left and right brain".
I'm gonna make it real easy for you because it's not terribly logical on the surface.
How does this test even matter, anyways? I still don't know that, but since i've studied binary before i can tell you how that particular quiz question works:
So, with binary numbers, it's always the number 2 brought to a power/exponent
that increases from right to left. In other words, you read from left to right, but this goes in reverse. With each new number, you have a power of 2:
128 =
2^7 (2 to the power of 7)
64 =
2^6 (2 to the power of 6)
32 =
2^5 (2 to the power of 5)
16 =
2^4 (2 to the power of 4) ........
8 =
2^3 (2 to the power of 3) 2 times 2 times 2
4 =
2^2 (2 to the power of 2) 2 times 2
2 =
2^1 (2 to the power of 1) 2 by itself not brought to anything, "a power of 1"
1 =
2^0 (2 to the power of 0) 2 without anything applied
So it's basically just a long string of "2 x 2 x 2...", starting with 2 to the power of zero. Every time you bring a number to the power of zero, then the answer is "1" because you're not applying multiplication to the number yet, so
the number just exists once in the logic of exponents.
2 to the first power just means the number alone. Any number brought to the second power means multiplying it by itself. Why binary math works that way in reference to computers is totally beyond me. Modern computers are a lot more complicated than bringing the number 2 to increased number of powers.
However, in the quiz
you don't actually have do to any sort of exponentiation. I think you just click the numbers and add them with that switch the quiz provides for you. That is how computers work, there are billions/trillions of on and off circuits:
Sum
33
Answer
32 + 1
Making the numbers 1 instead of zero in the top row "turns the circuit on" in this theoretical exercise.
You can see that "all" you need to do to find the answers in the puzzle/problem is just add the top values together like a computer does until it matches the far left column. I still kinda suck at math though, so if someone can confirm or deny the validity of my logic for solving this (and also better explain binary math...), that would be neat.