Minecraft wiki entry for Redstone_computers, associated text: Redstone logic closely reflects simple binary logic, as redstone can be either on or off, and can, therefore, be interpreted as 1s or 0s. We will be referencing in this tutorial, basic binary logic and various simple computer science terms. There is an excellent article which explains binary and conversion to binary. Please read the Architecture of building the Computer section as we will be following that to plan our computer, it is located in this article, thank you.