MIPS Assembly Language Programming CS50 discussion and and project book

In order to understand how a computer is able to manipulate data and perform computations, you must rst understand how data is represented by a computer. At the lowest level, the indivisible unit of data in a computer is a bit. A bit represents a single binary value, which may be either 1 or 0. In dierent contexts, a bit value of 1 and 0 may also be referred to as \true" and \false", \yes" and \no", \high" and \low", \set" and \not set", or \on" and \o". The decision to use binary values, rather than something larger (such as decimal values) was not purely arbitrary{ it is due in a large part to the relative simplicity of building electronic devices that can manipulate binary values.

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