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COMPUTER BASICS

TRANSISTORS

Transistors are the main building blocks of modern computers.

How do they work, and why are they used over other alternatives?

LOGIC GATES

Today's computers use transistors, which only have 2 states: on or off, representing true (1) and false (0) respectively.  

How can transistors perform logic with just two states?

BINARY

Modern computers are limited to just 2 states, known as binary.

How can computers store numbers large than 1? 

How do computers store letters, characters, and symbols?

ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT

Computers use transistors to build logic gates. These logic gates perform various boolean operations.

Computers use bits to represent and store data.

How do computers perform computation with bits and logic gates?

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