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

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People don’t code in binary, if you mean coding as in making software.

Computers we have nowadays are based on transistors that either let electricity through or don’t. So they can be seen as being on (1) or off (0).

Data can be stored in binary by just agreeing what the data is supposed to represent. E.g. we can say that 00000001 is ‘A’ and 00000010 is ‘B’.

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