what do the 1's adn 0's stand for on computers...?

Question

even in the movie Matrix, based on the computer world, there are those numbers, 1 and 0 on the screen. What do these numbers process do/mean?

Answer 1

It's the computer language called binary. Its essentially the simplest language in the computer. Its a series of switches where 1 is on and 0 is off. Depending on how these follow in sequence you will get different results. Here's a link to the actual numeral system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system : and here's a link to how it's used in computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_data

Answer 2

It's just coding, it's a different way of counting where 1=1 10=2 11=3 and so on.

Answer 3

It's the digits of a binary numbering system.

Traditionally, 1 = voltage on, 0 = voltage off.

Computers are (almost) all binary devices - data and control lines are either on or off, there is no half way stage... it makes logic circuits cleaner and more resistant to interference and signal loss.

So the 1s and 0s represent data (as in things programs work on...) as well as the programs themselves. They're all just a string of 1s and 0s and it's how they are treated by the processor that makes a difference.

Answer 4

Computers understand only machine language which is either high(1) or low(0) also known as binary language.
All information is stored/processed using the binary language of 1's and 0's.
To know more about binary check out foll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system

Answer 5

One's and O's is the computer language. They are in return, converted to characters so that we can read them. People communicate via languages, computers communicate via 1's and 0's. Everyone's answer is correct. Guess you can take all of them and compile them into one answer.

Answer 6

it stands for a bit of memory turned on and off. a 1 means the puticular bit is on and 0 means its off. Its the basic language of computers. so a 1 one stand for to put this into memory or a 0 would mean to delete it, its like a yes and no put to any process a computer does

Answer 7

They act as switches: zero (0) means off and one (1) means On. In computers, it is known as the Binary language, or the language of the computers.

Just like True or False, binary pretty much works the same way; it's either one or the other: on or off.

Refer to the following link for more info:
http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/binary/

Answer 8

The Os and 1s are representative of switches. All a computer is is a bunch of switches. When you type a key, you are really sending a complex, yet very simple, code of 1s and 0s to your computer that translates it into pixels that appear on the screen in front of you. Look up Binary Code on Wikipedia if this does not make sense to you, it can be rather difficult to grasp!

Answer 9

1 is on
0 is off

patterns make words or codes

if there are eight 1's or 0's (or both, that makes one character)

Answer 10

They are called "Binary numbers", a form of decimal use or replacement for decimal use". It's sort of a way of counting bits and bytes. They are of specific importance to those technical experts who use them, but not something the average user, non techie types, would need to be concerned with.