The Binary System
Let’s start with something fundamental: binary—the language computers speak. Every time I sit down to write code, beneath all the sophisticated languages and algorithms, it’s really just a conversation of 1s and 0s.
Now, you might wonder, why binary? Why don’t computers use something more familiar, like the decimal system? It’s actually pretty fascinating. Computers are, at their core, electrical machines. They operate in a world of on or off, high voltage or low voltage. Just two states.
- 1 = ON
- 0 = OFF