We can explain how the computer does all of this in strictly physical terms.

我们能从纯物理的角度来解释,电脑是怎么做到这些的

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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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