Why do computers work in binary?
All modern computers ultimately represent information as sequences of 0s and 1s. Why binary specifically, and not some other number system?
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Computer Science
Algorithms, computation and information theory
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What is a sorting algorithm, and which one is the fastest?
Sorting a list is one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. What approaches exist, and is there a theoretically optimal algorithm?
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What is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter?
Some programming languages are compiled and others are interpreted. What is the actual technical difference, and what are the trade-offs of each approach?
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How does public-key encryption work?
When I connect to a website over HTTPS, my browser and the server agree on a secret key without ever having met before. How is that mathematically possible?
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