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  • perhaps we could get, Say two volunteers.

  • Come on.

  • Okay, so one hand here and one hand over here.

  • Come on down.

  • If you want to meet me on the other end of the stage.

  • Come on over here.

  • Come on down.

  • What's your name?

  • Priyanka.

  • Nice to meet you, David.

  • Come on over and say if you want to wait right here and what's your name?

  • Calvin.

  • David.

  • Nice to meet you.

  • Come on over here.

  • Where?

  • Crown kiss.

  • So proud how you raise your hand first.

  • So you get to choose.

  • Do you want to go first or second in this little challenge ahead?

  • Okay, so Priyanka is gonna go first if you want to stand over there.

  • Kalman.

  • So the challenge ahead here is could you go ahead and represent for us in binary?

  • Using each of these light bulbs and in turn, switches a zeros and ones say the number 50 they might turn one light bulb on representing the 30 two's place might turn a lipo von representing the eights place or total count now is 32 plus not eight plus 16 I think.

  • Which is going to give us 32 plus 16 which is 48.

  • And so we get now a round of applause.

  • If we could, Priyanka, thanks very much.

  • Give us just a moment.

  • So each of these lightbulbs then represents just a switch orbit and inside of your computer.

  • If you've ever heard the phrase transistor, a transistor is just a tiny little switch and our computers that they have millions or billions of these switches that they use physically to represent information in store values, just like Priyanka did here.

  • So if a computer were to represent the number 50 it would literally turn on three switches of sorts.

  • Store a little bit of electricity here, here and here to represent the number 50.

  • And it would leave off all of the other switches.

  • The other five.

  • In this case, if we're using eight bits or one bite Calvin, you raise your hands seconds, and so we have one other challenge ahead.

  • Fortunately, these things are magnetic, so let's take things up a notch.

  • And if you would Calvin, how about the number 13 if you will?

  • How would a computer represent the number 13 where each of these light bulbs from one toe 128 represents a bit we had of course, the ones place over here.

  • The tooth place 48 16 and so forth.

  • So we can ask the audience.

  • Should we turn on for instance, this bulb here.

  • No way to big.

  • How about this one?

  • Okay.

  • And you're in charge as the audience.

  • Okay, so we have 1248 four gives us eight plus four is 12 and another round of applause.

  • Thank you.

  • Got supper.

  • Thanks to you both.

perhaps we could get, Say two volunteers.

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