Crazy Simple Computer Science Series/2 🚀(Understanding the Matrix World/Binary to Numbers and Symbols)

Yagmur Sahin
DataBulls
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4 min readOct 3, 2021

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Welcome to the Crazy Simple Computer Science Series!

This series introduces readers to the basics of computer science in a way that anyone can understand. This series, which aims to make computer science and working principles fun, is aimed to give the basic logic of computer science and helpful information that you can use in daily life in an understandable language.

In our Crazy Simple Computer Science 1- How Computers Work article, we explained how computers work.

If you have started reading this article for the first time, I recommend that you take a look at the first article in the series. :) So, what is explained here will become more understandable.

If you have watched the movie The Matrix, you must have seen that the world of the Matrix is ​​created by a computer program and operates with 0s and 1s. In fact, the computer world works this way. And all the numbers and symbols, including the texts you read, have 0 and 1 equivalents.

Matrix Movie Scene

So how can computers turn 0 and 1 into numbers and symbols and read these words as they are today? We…

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Yagmur Sahin
DataBulls

London đź“Ť Lawyer | Privacy & Data Protection Professional | Philosophy-Psychology-Tech Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/data-privacy-yagmursahin/