Eli5: what is inside a cpu, and how does it perform thousands of calculations a second?

Question

Eli5: what is inside a cpu, and how does it perform thousands of calculations a second?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Two things:

A special kind of math that can be done by a machine. Boolean math.

And

A special hardware that can do this math. This hardware is a very complex series of electrical circuits, and when you send a math problem into this circuit, it finds an answer