Eli5 hiw do computers understand binary

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I was always fascinated by how computers work and i know that its basically just a bunch of 1 and 0s called binary code hut how do you even get a computer to even understand that in the first place

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It’s not so much that they “understand” 1 or 0. It’s much more basic than that. In a computer 0 or 1 is often low voltage or high voltage. Computers are just a dumb piece of silicon that we’ve made do calculations by creating complexity from a handful of logic gates.

Everything computers do or “understand” is because they’ve been built/programmed that way.

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