So Computers know only binary language, how does it understand to show for example letter “R” or number “3” on a Computer screen? Or how do impulses of power to make it 1 or 0 making computer understand to display certain things such as letters on the screen?

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So Computers know only binary language, how does it understand to show for example letter “R” or number “3” on a Computer screen? Or how do impulses of power to make it 1 or 0 making computer understand to display certain things such as letters on the screen?

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Answer 1

Binary – Base 2 (0 and 1) is just a convenient way to represent the numbers you know and love.

What the computer “knows” is how to covert the “R” to ascii value 82, then converts the number 82 (base 10) to 1010010 (base 2).

The computer can then easily represent that binary number in hardware as a series of on/off states.