Why binary?


1
.

1
is shown on multimeter. When the switch is flipped to the “off” position, a 0
is shown on the multimeter. So we have represented the numbers 1
and 0
using a simple switch.If we want more digits, we just need to add in more circuits, and we can represent as large a binary number as we need. We just need one switch for every digit we want to represent.
How Computers Work: Demystifying Computation

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