In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

(1) Any data, hardware or software structure (data file, machine code, instruction set, etc.) in binary form that is 100% identical to another. See binary compare. (2) An executable program that can ...