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There's just one reason. Computers use physical properties. The decimal system uses human properties that a computer cannot understand. A computer recognizes two states: on/off for memory, magnetized/non-magnetized for hard drive storage. Humans, not wanting to say on/off all the time, simply use the binary nubmer system to represent what the computer is using. Binary is a two digit number system. Humans use the numbers 0 and 1 to represent the computer's physical properties of power on/power off or magetized/non-magnetized. Think of it this way. Write a letter "A" on a whiteboard. What is it? To a human it's a letter A which is an abstract concept. The physical properties is simply ink on a board. There is no letter A in the physical world. So binary is a human method of describing/using the physical properties of a computer.

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