Computers Speak Binary Numbers

How did early computer designers come up with the first computer language?

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Watch the “Chalk Talk Video” below, which is from the site, to find out how early computer designers chose the binary system of numbers – a number system composed only of ones and zeros – as a reliable way for computers to get information across electrical circuits.