To answer this, we need to take a short detour to meet a tiny beast inside your computer.
Inside your computer is an Oreo sized component called a processor, which is the brains behind all the magic that happens in the computer.
But don’t get fooled by its size, though. It is a hungry beast that feeds on billions of 1
s and 0
s every single second, and its hunger starts right from the time you turn on the computer and lasts until you shut it down.
1
s and 0
s?Yes! The series of 1
s and 0
s are various kinds of instructions that tell the processor what to do.
Like a grumpy toddler, the processor is extremely picky and wants all its 1
s and 0
s in a precise order; Otherwise, it throws a big tantrum, and things crash and burn.
By the way, the 1
s and 0
s that the processor is feeding on are called bits.
A bit is the smallest unit of storage in computer memory that holds either a
1
or 0
.
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