http://www.ralphb.net/IPSubnet/ipaddr.html
An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique identifier for a node or host connection on an IP network. An IP address is a 32 bit binary number usually represented as 4 decimal values, each representing 8 bits, in the range 0 to 255 (known as octets) separated by decimal points. This is known as "dotted decimal" notation.

Question: What the hell is a node?

140 .179 .220 .200
10001100.10110011.11011100.11001000

How was this conversion accomplised? What was the equation?