Like I get that it can be a 1 or a 0, and that stores information, but how do you get information out of that? And how do people code with it? Seems like all it could store is numbers
Edit: Thank you all, this is very helpful
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Everybody is explaining to you what binary is and how to encode stuff
But to answer your question the vast majority of people do not code in binary like they’re not sitting there typing ones and zeros into a notepad
Programmers these days use high level languages that abstract themselves from the machine code. Languages like C and c++, can manipulate binary objects but it’s up to the compiler to actually transform that into machine code that your PC actually understands
The closest you can get to programming in binary is called assembly but even then you’re just giving the CPU instructions not actually doing ones and zeros
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