• Question: what makes a computer work?

    Asked by sebisepic to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 19 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Computers are amazing. I mean seriously so complex that I don’t get how they can do so much. The basic premise of them is that you can have information in what they call a binary form. This means that all data is stored as a string of either on (1) or off(0). This basic idea is what forms the basis of all computers.

      Interestingly we owe the number 0 to arabic mathematicians, without accepting the number 0 as an actual thing, we’d have no computers at all!

    • Photo: Melissa Brereton

      Melissa Brereton answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      electricity? 😛

    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      haha, Mel beat me to it! 😉

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