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# Code: hidden language of software

## Chapter 14

* All computers have some kind of oscillator that makes everything else move in synchronicity.
* The output of the oscillator alternates between 0 and 1. A common way to symbolize that fact is with a diagram that looks like this:

![](https://i.imgur.com/HDThsBB.png)

* Flip flop circuit retains information