Why Do Computers Use 1s and 0s? Binary and Transistors Explained.
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A short explanation of binary.
Upon reviewing the finished video I realized I made a mistake in some of my vocabulary. A byte can represent a number up to 255 but it can actually represent 256 different VALUES, as 0 is a value in and of itself. Rerecording and reanimating would be a painful process, so forgive me this mistake.
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if youtube was available in 90s, I didn't have to spend the whole semester to understand computer architect and binary , all under 7 minutes and well explained, Thank you
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Thanks for this beneficial video. You mentioned in your video that you will upload a video about binary and pixels. I couldn’t find it
@@redwan4829 It's the one on monitors.
I got a bachelors degree in computer science and not one teacher could explain binary in all 4 years like this video did. congrats really this was a work of art.
Hes very smart, or knowledgable. If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you probably don't understand it yourself - Einstein
@@klikitzsmith8416 Feynman technique is same
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I did not understand this in computer science lecture, u explained so nicely in 7 mins' video. Expecting a lot like this.
Hah, you were even expecting to understand this by a lecture! that's a good joke.
Usually those people you call as a teacher don't even know the concept of how it works forget about explaining to you. This goes even further as they were not even being taught properly in their time, then the cycle goes on. And this is what happens when you make education as a profit-driven organization. they are more focused on payment & exams rather than explaining simple concepts & driving you towards a real profession. ...Germany comes in mind right ! free education...
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omg I understood this since 8
It's really simple. I'm surprised people have trouble teaching it
@@omniyambot9876 rly? explain me why no stack greater than 64 bit/ bigger dan QWORD?
You mentioned at 4:10 that a byte represents 255 values. Just to be clear, it represents 256 values. The highest value represented is 255 but 0 is included; therefore, 256 total values are represented. EDIT: I now see you have mentioned this in the video description. I'll keep this comment up for those that didn't read the description.
Can u explain this, I don't really get it.
@@amarsirfmai a byte is 8 bits of data. An example in binary: 00000000 to 11111111. 11111111 represents 255 in decimal. 00000000 represents 0 in decimal. That is a total of 256 values because you include 0 (00000000), though the highest represented value is 255 (11111111).
@@amarsirfmai 0 - 9 are 10 numbers. just like 1 - 10. here 0 is like 1 as in 1 - 10 meanwhile, 9 is like 10 as in 1 - 10.
@@knightdaleknights44 Couldnt explain it better. Congrat !
The video is right 255, because in Graphics Design we consider 0 being the absolute black counted as color, so RGB represents only 255 +0 which is black, 255 being the brightest or white.
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Thank you for giving me that exposure, it's a tremendous help! Not sure if this is related but the video I recently uploaded on logic gates seems to be ringing well with people.
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as a high school student watching this, this has explained way more about why computers use 1's and 0's than any teacher probably could explain at my school, good material here to learn from!
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High school has levels of math that going to college adds to. Computer electronics in college moves into the workings of computers utilizing the components with various math equations.
Good quality visual aid helps, so no big surprise here. There is only so much a teacher can convey with words and a blackboard, even books with detailed illustrations can struggle getting their point across because pictures and text can't beat animation/motion and audio speech.
Holy crap, I am someone that took technology for granted but seeing how much effort has been made into making our technology as high speed and as amazing as it is now appreciate everything so much more.
You can tell when someone knows their filed so well that they can explain it to someone who knew nothing about binary and can now explain it to someone else pretty well. You're amazing! I'm looking forward to learning more!
Honestly, you deserve a medal because of the simplicity that you use to explain the subject.
There are 10 types of people in this world, Those that understand binary, Those who don't, And those who were not expecting a ternary joke.
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I'm stuying computer programming and although I knew about this, After all these years this is the most basic and understandable guide about this topic I've ever seen or heard! Fantastic job so glad I found you in my feed.
Beautiful explanation right here! You've simplified a computer engineering course in the space of 7 minutes, and I'm sure you've inspired many beginners on the subject what the inner workings of computer processors is really all about! I commend your work entirely.
A good video but a lot of stuff is missing. it's not clear how computer " know " how to make the the logic
@@parallax8207 That my friend is called the ALU which is built into the CPU. You know computers use transistors to represent data in binary, now the next step is to learn about *logic gates.* There's a video game called Turing Complete that does a good job of guiding you through the process of designing a computer from scratch.
This is one of the few videos that clearly explains binary. This has been a difficult concept to grasp for me, but this helped a lot
Amazing!! This is how one should teach! The connections from each subject are apparent and logical. The voice is coherent, the pace is right. Great job.
I think this is the first time I've ever commented on a videp before. Simply wow! Your ability to simplify topics and make it accessible to people on different levels is simply admirable!
All these years of throwing the word binary around and converting bases , I never understood why this was used until this brilliant presentation. Thank you . Subscribing right away
this is definitively one of the coolest and easiest to understand there ever could be about this topic. Great job bro !!
First of all I didn't know at all why computers use 1s and 0s so when I found this in my recommendations I was curious to find out so I clicked on the video and learned a lot from your good explanation. Very helpful.
my computer only uses 0s
why did you say first of all
@@johnfranklin5784 because I didnt Know anything about 1s and 0s and its the First thing im saying in the comment
purple cream you only had one complete thought, no need for a “first of all”
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Beautifully explained. Clear, detailed and perfectly structured. And almost as importantly, well measured; there's none of that maddening, manic delivery that's so often favoured by TH-camrs, suggestive of the narrator having to rush to complete his (or her) video before the plane leaves. No distracting, irrelevant music or silly sound effects, either: it's the subject that's allowed to be the focus of attention.
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Dude...very well done! This has always been a difficult concept for me to grasp, but this is one of the best videos I've ever seen on the subject!
Hey Michael, thanks for the positive feedback! I'm glad it helped!
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Simple and clear explanation. Many thanks for your great work that made me feel confident to keep my goal of studying coding since I finally started to understand the very basics of computer science. I watched numerous tutorials and got nothing until this one.
Ive been watching a lot of youtube videos explaining this stuff and so far yours are the best. Thanks and keep up the good work!
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You really have a talent for explaining things that most people would see as complicated in a very easy to understand way
Brilliant - so many times I have searched why 255 was such a limitation with IP addressing, but I couldn't find it - and you have answered it so simply in 8 bits at 3:20. I wish I understood this so much earlier. Many thanks!
This was extremely interesting and insightful. I'm trying to learn more about computers and how they work and your videos have been a big help. You explain everything in a way that I can understand easily.
Heyy bro now I'm at the place you probably were a year ago would be great help if you can tell me how to go about understanding the basics about the computers
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Great video! I like the way you make the connection between 0's and 1's and electric charge on or off. It would be interesting to see a visualization of how it all works, how and where the electricity flows, and what we see from that.
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Thank you for this explaining video, I'm hyped to watch the next videos mentioned at the end, looking forward to understanding the concepts that are the basis of what we use everyday, including at the basis of me being able to write this comm from my keyboard and then post it and seeing how this whole process takes place "on the screen".
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Finally I found out what the transistors do in terms of translating them to characters on the screen!
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This is the best video I have watched on Binary. Thank you. I feel like I need the see the practicality of binary with understanding the micro transistors and things are making a lot more sense. Great teacher :)
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Thanks for this great video as since I was a kid in the mid to late 2000s, I never understood what a bit was, but now I do thanks to this great video that explains it in a way that isn't too simplified but is explained in a way that is interesting and simple enough for most people to be able to get an understanding of it quickly.
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I had never understood the systems, 32, 64, etc. bits thing until now. Thank you very much.
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whoa, I've had this explained to me several times, but I think this is the first time I actually understood it. thanks!
YES! Exactly!
Nice, recommendable video. The initial choice of a two state base is related to logic states as well as to digits. Without being a hardware specialist, I believe that It also minimizes errors. For a given maximal voltage, increasing the number of states (to 10 for example) would probably raise the number of errors in a linear fashion. Also, It would be an overkill for representing true/false states.
Im currently just starting out on a HNC computing course and the introduction of binary into my life really stumped me but this video explained it all perfectly. Only thing I had to further research was why you had to minus the one when understanding up to what number binary bytes can represent e.g. 2^8 - 1
For quiet a while I had the misconception that binary was some magical computer language that only meant “on” or “off” and with enough “ons” and “offs” in a specific pattern you can get a meaning. Because that is how it was taught to me. Once I realized it’s just a number system, Computer Science made a lot more sense to me.
Best explanation I’ve seen of the fundamental concept, thank you
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An important reason for why "computers" (and digital communications) use only the two states 0 and 1, is that it is the simple possible distinction you can make between the possible continuous values of an (analog) signal. There used to be good and bad VGA (analog image transmission) cables that would add more or less noise to the analog image signal, giving you a better or worse image in the end. With digital transmission, unless a significant amount of noise is exceeded, the 0 or 1 that is sent will be interpreted correctly as 0 or 1 by the other end, even in more noisy situations.
0 and 1 sound the same to both ends.
As soon as there are more possibilities, the potential for error and misclassification increases.
Simply put, whole lot of instructive and easy to grasp the rather complicated concepts video.Thank you
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5:33 -> Number Can Go As High As 1023... Glad You Mentioned it in the Description of the Video...
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These are the one of the few really basis things to build innovative things in this field
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It might be useful to just think of computers as only capable of storing and processing boolean values. When it comes down to single transistors, your voltage in each wire is either low or high. We interpret booleans as numbers in our minds because it's just easier to represent them that way, and since boolean have 2 states, using a base 2 system makes the translation the most direct.
That was a really interesting video, I have been learning about computer for 2 years in university but no one taught us this thing why and how binary counting is used for the computer.
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I'm sad you cut it off when you did, I would have loved more history. Great job and thank you for the useful breakdown. This has helped so much
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Thank you! I now have a grasp of Binary! Looking forward to future videos.
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Thanks man! I'm glad I could help and I appreciate the positive feedback!
When you said "one million and one" I twitched uncontrollably.
That's debatably how it's supposed to be said th-cam.com/video/hm30O5PLnB4/w-d-xo.html
@@H3Vtux That's one youtuber who is introducing more confusion. Nothing is gained by suggesting "two" to "nine" no longer exist and that numbers go "zero", "one", then "ten". People learn in grade school that numbers are independent of the objects that they represent and the symbols used to represent them. We know that other languages have different names for the same values, that's not helping his case. Using the word names for a given value is the simplest way to be unambiguous about the value we really want. The only reason to do this is to be able to refer to a specific symbol in a specific column, in which case, it's not actually the whole value we want anyway. Just say the symbol. 0xaa55 | 10101010 01010101, 0o777. "hex 'a' 'a' 'five' 'five' or 'one' 'zero' 'one' 'zero' 'one' 'zero' 'one' 'zero', 'zero' 'one' 'zero' 'one' 'zero' 'one' 'zero' 'one' , octal 'seven' 'seven' 'seven' '"
@@andrewbuckley2627 Yes also numbers predate the positional system and different bases. Even the way they're said, in many languages, reveals this. Reading out base 10 uses it but it doesn't make it universal. Independent of representation, a thousand means a thousand.
@@andrewbuckley2627 In what way are numbers taught to be independent from raddix in grade school? Even in late high school most schools don't teach students to think about anything outsade of base 10.
@@H3Vtux By showing them apples and asking how many there are? What radix does "twelve" use? We only use the term on the written word where we have symbols.
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Thank you so much! I just went back to college to learn about Multimedia and this came up. Luckily I saw your video. Very informative! Thank you so much. (as I am typing, and somehow using backspace as well with errors, I am thinking of the little bits on and off)
Great explanation sir.. !
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1:03 Just sitting back and seeing the magic eye illusion that is made from the apples. The vertical line down the middle is further back, and there are a couple of apples on the right closer to the viewer.
You did a phenomenal job and we (I) need more.
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Being a Civil Engineer I was always fascinated about computers but the bookish knowledge always seemed too overwhelming to me. This video made all the same information so easy to understand. I think I might switch my field of work!!
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Finally, teachers nowadays explain everything the way politicians do, confusing, diagonally, and complicated, all in an effort to try to look smart
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6:16 One note which i have to make
The maximum number of possible states are 65536 in 16 Bits and 256 in 8 Bits.
But the highest numbers which can be represented in these systems are 65535 in 16 Bit and 255 in 8 Bit.
It is possible to have all transistors turned off. That means the number zero.
This adds the additional possible state.
Just a remark if people are looking this video and want to learn about the binary system
Nevertheless a great video demonstrating the Bit system :)
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