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Computers are only capable of differentiating between two possible states. That is: a switch is either on or off; a capacitor is either full of charge or it is empty; a score upon an optical disc is either long or short; there is either a flux transition or there is not; there is either a hole punched at a position on a card or there is not. All are valid ways of representing binary values and all are or have been used by computers at one time or another. We use 1s and 0s, but computers cannot; they are simple machines, they have no actual intelligence whatsoever. They have to use mechanic representations.

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Computers use and send information by using 1's and 0's. Not 2's and 10's.

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