Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic. ~Lewis Carroll This is the first post in a multi-part series explaining how computers work. At its heart, a computer is a logical-thinking machine. It’s very good at starting with several assumptions and deducing a conclusion from those assumptions. Of course, a computer can’t do any of that on its own. We need to