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Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago“So why dont we store everything in hex”
I’m also not a scientist but I’m pretty sure (maybe I’m wrong and someone will correct me)
We’re not actually storing things as 1’s or 0’s. We’re storing things as “On or Off” which is kinda sorta a functional limit of the medium of electricity.
the 1s and 0s that humans use is the human interpretation.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 days ago
We aren’t actually using on or off either, but rather different levels of electrical charge. If there is more electric charge past a certain threshold being picked up, it’s interpreted as a 1 or on, if it’s beneath this defined threshold, it’s interpreted as a 0 or off.
1 and 0 are abstractions, not the physical reality, which is messy and analog. We are forcing this analog reality into a binary state by classifying it.