How are computers programmed with ones and zeros?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Computers can do all sorts of amazing things, from solving complicated math problems to showing us videos of dancing birds. Computers do all that thanks to something called “binary code”, which is a code that is made up of only two numbers, 1 and 0. But exactly how does it all work? We asked computer engineer Sam Dickerson to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s hard-driving you bonkers? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help compute the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:05.4	Answering those questions that make you go um.
0:07.9	Um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of, comes to you from APM Studios.
0:25.7	I'm the number one, and I'm here today with my BFSF Zero.
0:30.5	Say hi, Zero.
0:31.8	Oh, hi.
0:34.1	Um.
0:36.2	We've been friends for a long time now, right, Zero?
0:39.0	Only for about five or six thousand years.
0:42.2	And we've accomplished so much together.
0:44.6	Like, remember the birthday party we threw for number seven?
0:47.5	Top-notch dips.
0:49.3	And remember our vacation to Cabo?
0:52.1	Outstanding snorkeling.
0:54.0	And... That time we got stuck in a tree when we were taking that hot air ballooning class?
1:00.7	We were up there for weeks.
1:03.1	I wonder why the instructor never came back for us.
1:06.3	But when I think about all our adventures together, I think the one I'm most proud of is how we help computers be computers.
1:15.1	We do?
1:16.4	Oh, yes, we do.
1:18.2	Computers wouldn't be anywhere without us.
1:20.5	You see, computers run on a special code called binary.
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