How do processors work? How are a bunch of transistors able to make logical decisions?
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It’s a bit like cells in a body. Cells form tissues, tissues forms organs, organs form a body, and so on.
A group of transistors form a logic gate. A group.of logic gates can be made to do certain basic functions like addition or subtraction. A group of these can them be designed to do more complex calculations. Add on machine language which tells these groups of logic gates what to do, and an operating system which then again tells that what to do.
If you look at it from the opposite perspective, complex operations all boil down to simple maths like addition and subtraction.
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