ELi5: How do computers do math?

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How do computers do math with binary numbers, or do they?

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You can do all the same math in binary, or hexadecimal, or whatever that we do in base 10. For example 8 + 4 = 12 becomes 1000 + 0100 = 1100 in binary. Then the computer would convert 1100 into the base 10 version which is 12.

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