eli5 How do people code with binary?

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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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It’s just like another language. English has 26 letters. Binary has 2 letters. It means the words have to be longer in binary, but if the computer has been taught to read that language then it can read it quite quickly.

DNA, which is the language that cells speak, only has 4 letters and it can make a whole person!

(Dont shout at me about RNA, this is for a 5 year old)

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