There are so many reasons and advantages as to why binary is the primary language for computers and electronics used in computer hardware. Binary is an efficient way to control logic circuits and reflect the optical components, and it’s a simple way to process the electrical currents of the hardware and magnetic storage components or devices of the computer. Copies without flaws can be made of binary data.

The electronic circuits used in the processor of a computer are made up of billions of transistors (switches). Knowing that the transistors have 2 states named off (low voltage) and on (high voltage), binary’s 0 and 1 method is a simple and elegant way of reflecting those states. Otherwise, we’d have had to put hundreds of rules into the computer if we used the decimal number system.

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