Hi all 
This could be an interresting ( and teaching ) thing to do in shaders:
visual result of binary numbers; how all is coded into our computers
I’ve been having fun since now 1h remaking in nodes, things that i did ages ago with hardware gate arrays ( xilinx, altera, etc… ). I confess i love it 
Here’s a visual binary representation of a 8 bit value ( the X from UV ) spanning from 0 to 255:
The nodes setup:
and the blend:
bools.blend (1004.1 KB)
Hope you like it
Happy blending !