COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the only thing that computers understand?
A
Machine Code
B
Low Level Languages
C
High Level Languages
D
Algorithms
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A computer chip understands machine language only, that is, the language of 0’s and 1’s.

Detailed explanation-2: -Machine code, also known as machine language, is the elemental language of computers. It is read by the computer’s central processing unit (CPU), is composed of digital binary numbers and looks like a very long sequence of zeros and ones.

Detailed explanation-3: -The only language that the computer can process or execute is called machine language. It consists of only 0s and 1s in binary, that a computer can understand. In short, the computer only understands binary code, i.e 0s and 1s.

Detailed explanation-4: -binary code, code used in digital computers, based on a binary number system in which there are only two possible states, off and on, usually symbolized by 0 and 1.

Detailed explanation-5: -In mathematics and in computing systems, a binary digit, or bit, is the smallest unit of data. Each bit has a single value of either 1 or 0, which means it can’t take on any other value. Computers can represent numbers using binary code in the form of digital 1s and 0s inside the central processing unit (CPU) and RAM.

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