 checks, how to operate on numbers with arithmetic operations, and even how to perform <a href="01-08-booleans.html">boolean operations</a> like <code>and</code> and <code>or</code>.
Binary numbers have their own operations, often called bitwise operations.
To perform binary operations, let&apos;s first look at how to represent binary numbers.
Typing a number like <code>101</code>, Lua will interpret it as a decimal number (literally one-hundred one) so we need to represent it as a string and convert it to 