pseudopad t1_je248it wrote
Reply to comment by turniphat in ELI5: If digital data is stored in 0s & 1s, how does the reader know how many of the digits to take into consideration? by distinct_oversight
This is probably the best explanation so far. There's a few posts talking about cpus and how many bits they are, but the question was about storage, and this reply describes how a computer (program) figures out what's inside a file.
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