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It is remarkable to consider how much of the modern world has been built from a binary system of 1s and 0s. Computers, phones, digital images, music files, artificial intelligence, satellites, and global communication all depend on a simple pattern: on and off, signal and silence, presence and absence. In computing, binary code uses only two possible values, 0 and 1, to represent information and instructions. From that simplicity, astonishing complexity emerges. Flow Through