Binary has many meaning according to what you need to convert it to. So for example 101010 is the decimal 42 or the hexadecimal 2A. Sometimes people like to use ASCII in which the number 42 represents the asterisk * or in the hacking world the asterisk means “everything” or “all” some people think that the number 42 is the number that explains life… or something…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_42