Why does everything in Computer is the Multiple of 2 ??

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Like storage is: 4gb, 8gb, 16gb, 32gb, 64gb…. And so on

Like the Processor type is: 32bit, 64bits..

Like the ram is: 2gb, 4gb, 8gb ?

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At its simplest, a computer is just a bunch of transistors that are either on or off. So everything is a multiple of those two states. This is a gross oversimplification, but at the most basic level, it is still about measuring if a data bit is on or off.

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