Well, if we actually want to represent something like the number 7, well in binary, not actually in decimal like this.

如果你表达,类似于7的数字，在二进制中，它和十进制可不太一样。

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Seventy-nine. In fact, if you add up each of these numbers, 9 you should get the decimal number 79 79 from this binary number here.

9，事实上，如果你把这些数字累加，你应该能从这些二进制中9,得到十进制数。

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But at the end of the day, and here's why we just went with binary and not decimal years ago, when you have one implement a computer with a physical device, it's actually really easy to represent the notion of on or off.

但是最终，之前我们采用二进制,而不是十进制，主要是因为当我们用一台实体机器运行计算机时，这实际上很容易用开或者关的概念来表示。

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