How do computer parts turn electricity into useable information?

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Like how do they turn the electricity running through them into actual 1’s and 0’s and show all of that on my screen?

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To ELI5 that might take a hundred thousand words or so. Electrical signals aren’t turned into ones’s and zero’s they are ones’s and zero’s. Usually a high voltage (not actually that high like 3.3v) is a one and a low voltage (~0v) is a zero.

[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XbRIVWFRIw) explains how those electrical signals are used to add numbers.

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