The fact that computations can have meaningful results is what makes computing machines so useful. Each bit doubles the number of possibilities. The number of possibilites with 16 bits is 2 multiplied by itself 16 times. The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is the active part of the computer which actually executes programs. To execute a machine language program that is stored in main memory, the CPU repeatedly fetches an instruction from memory and then executes that instruction.
Machine language consists of instructions encoded as binary numbers.
They must first be translated into the machine language that the computer understands. Give some specific examples. Bits can be combined to make data structures. For example, transistors can be combined to make AND, OR, and NOT gates.