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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How did you code your question with only 26 letters?
It requires you to have a preconfigured way to interpret various sequences of the ones and zeros. And there are lots of those. A computer already knows what to do with the ones and zeros of a particular file format, and sometimes it uses the first few to tell it what to do with the rest of them. Same for ones and zeros that your phone receives from the cell tower. It gets ones and zeros that tell it which other ones and zeros are addressed to it, which in turn tell it when and where to look for other ones and zeros that are the actual data it needs.
There’s even a standard way to code for the 26 letters using strings of eight ones and zeros, so binary is at least as powerful as English for giving instructions.
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