nemesis wrote:
> A computer is nothing but a calculator:  everything that goes through it 
> is nothing but numbers, including the instructions that manipulate such 
> numbers.  Everything has to be converted into numbers before being 
> processed by a computer.  Sounds, images and textual information are 
> codified/decodified just for convenience. :)

Not precisely. Everything is converted into electrical signals. Computer 
programmers think of those signals as representing numbers. :-)

The *theory* of computer science treats everything as numbers. Actual 
computers don't use numbers for anything.

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