Why do computers use binary?
4 min readMar 4, 2020
If you’ve come across this article, you’ve probably wondered why computers use binary and after some research got an unsatisfying answer of having something to do with 1’s and 0’s. My hope is to satisfy that curiosity by the end of this article.
As you probably know, binary works with only two digits, 1s, and 0s. But what does that exactly mean? That means you can represent any information with the help of only…