Why is it that when electronic devices malfunction, turning them off then on works so frequently?

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E.g computers, Wi-Fi routers, tvs, consoles. All these items malfunction every once in while and all I do is turn them off then on again to get them working again. Why?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

You already have some good answers, but another analogy I will throw out there is counting. If you are counting a large number of things while having a conversation on a different topic, sometimes you will lose your place. You can sometimes get away with a reasonable guess or quickly check some intermediate number you wrote down, but a lot of the time the easiest thing to do is simply start back at 1, as you know the way forward from there.

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