Raise the Bar

Super easy, but I love code puzzles. Thanks!

@zolv Your spoiler has the right solution, but the wrong explanation (as you stated).

Rather than giving away the solution, I thought maybe you'd like a hint or two first:

Spoiler: Hint #1

There are three letters in BAR and three sections of sliders separated by green spots.

Spoiler: Hint #2

The sliders only move one space up or down, i.e. they are either in the up or down position. Quite like binary.

Spoiler: Hint #3 - Near Solution

For the letter A there is only one slider: thus either a 1 or a 0. What can you think about the letter A that also associates with either 1 or 0?

Spoiler: Hint #4 - First two solved

If A=1 and B=2 ...

Spoiler: Full Solution

Counting the letters of the English alphabet: A=1, B=2, R=18. In binary you have A=1, B=10, and R=1010. In other words, BAR can be expressed as 10 1 1010.

@zolv Actually, you're right! I miss-counted just like @ZachMan !! (but you're a little off as well )

Spoiler: Error in code

In order to count in binary, one starts with the rightmost digit (just like in other bases). Thus the rightmost digit is for +0 or +1, the second rightmost for +2, the third rightmost for +4, the fourth rightmost for +8, the fifth rightmost for +16, and so on. The pattern you see is that each successive digit represents a power of 2 (just like in decimal where it's the power of 10).

The powers of two are (counting from the right): 2^0=1, 2^1=2, 2^2=4, 2^3=8, 2^4=16, and so on.

The mistake that I clearly made was that since I knew that R was the 18th number in the English alphabet, I simply chose 1010 to represent it making the mistake that the first one is 16 plus the second one which is 2 (16+2=18). I'm assuming that ZachMan made the same mistake thinking that the fourth rightmost digit is 2^4=16 when in fact it is only 2^3=8.

Zolv in your spoiler you wrote: 18dec=10100b. Kind of easy to make mistakes I guess.

18dec=10010b

@ZachMan Could you please confirm?

The explanation was more for those casually passing by.

Today my kid has downloaded several levels on my back, included your. I don't know how he did (chance apparently) but he solved your code and was really exited by this. Thanks for that For me, I admit that I didn't have to patience to solve it