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Binary is a number system that of which allows all electronic devices to function. You may be asking, "But why? Why not just a normal number system?" well, binary is the easiest to work with, as it is a base 2 number system, making it so that you can represent the state of something with those 2 numbers: 1 for existent / in a certain state, 0 for nonexistent / not in a certain state. Binary represents everything. For example: the device you're reading this on: is it powered on? Yes. Are you a total BOSS at life? I sure don't know, but you do. Doesn't matter. Binary can almost always represent literally everything around you. HOWEVER: sometimes, you'll run into problems like: "Is my chocolate milk empty?" it could be partially empty, but then the answer would be "No", which is 0. It should be somewhere near 0.5. Look at it this way: you ask the same question with a different polarity (AKA say "okay, is it NOT full then?) it would then STILL be 0. So, then you write down 0.5, however that CANNOT be represented as binary. This is one of the problems with binary and normally why working with binary is so hard. This is why "fuzzy logic" exists. It's where multiple binary bits work together to make a "fuzzy bit" (not an actual name) and can represent things like 0.5. There isn't much else to show here, so to wrap it up on a high note, we have this:
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