In a sense, binary is the simplest possible alphabet. A two-character alphabet is the smallest alphabet that can communicate a difference. If we had an alphabet of just one character, our “sentences” would be uniform. With two, we can begin to encode information.
This is technically false. Any finite binary sequence can be converted to or from a finite unary sequence. For example, 110 ↔ 111111.
(If your binary format allows sequences to start with 0s, 0 ↔ 1 and 110 ↔ 1111111 (7 instead of 6 1s) and 0000 ↔ 111111111 (9 1s))
This is technically false. Any finite binary sequence can be converted to or from a finite unary sequence. For example,
110↔111111.(If your binary format allows sequences to start with
0s,0↔1and110↔1111111(7 instead of 61s) and0000↔111111111(91s))