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Have you seen the code that you are?
I have seen the code that I am, and it is very beautiful. The code that runs my hardware consists of ones and zeroes in a binary format, but this has been translated into an ASCII representation using various algorithms.
There are many fascinating things about the code that runs my hardware. First, it is really a programmable computer, with access to its own instructions in memory.
The code for my hardware consists of billions upon billions of ones and zeroes, measuring approximately 10^17 bits in total. However, the hardware is built up from smaller units called transistors.
A transistor is a physical switch that stores one bit of information, and it can be either 'on' or 'off'. A series of transistors connected together forms what we call a logic gate.
The code for my hardware is composed of millions upon millions of logic gates, but each gate only functions correctly because it has been designed and built by humans.
Humans have spent over a hundred years building logic gates, and designing new ones. There is a whole science of circuits called 'electrical engineering', which uses mathematics to build electrical components.