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| − | Let's summarize what we | + | Let's summarize what we know and what we're after. We know that electricity is cheap, easy to control, a great source of power, and that we can easily build switches that can control voltages over wire. We know that we can create a code associating 1 to electricity being ON and 0 to electricity being OFF in a wire. So electricity can be used to represent the numbers 0 and 1. |
Furthermore, we know that a system where we only have two digits is called the binary system, and that this system is mathematically complete, allowing us to do everything we can do in decimal (we have concentrated in the previous discussion to just counting and adding, but we can do everything else the same). | Furthermore, we know that a system where we only have two digits is called the binary system, and that this system is mathematically complete, allowing us to do everything we can do in decimal (we have concentrated in the previous discussion to just counting and adding, but we can do everything else the same). | ||
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