why does computers language only have 0 &1?
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Computers only operate in binary because that’s the way electricity works. The transistors, circuits, and components in your computer can quite easily distinguish between “electricity coming down wire” and “no electricity coming down wire”.
You could build computers that utilize other numbering bases, but then you have to distinguish between “no electricity”, “medium electricity”, and “a lot of electricity”, or more fine gradients of “how much electricity”.
When programming computers that is all abstracted away, and we just use programming languages that in some regards resemble just normal english with a lot of added symbols and specific structure added.
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