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machine code

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noun

  1. instructions for the processing of data in a binary, octal, or hexadecimal code that can be understood and executed by a computer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“The challenge can be trying to reproduce a precise set of instructions in machine code from a paper.”

From Nature • Dec. 19, 2019

“Knuth made it clear that the system could actually be understood all the way down to the machine code level,” said Dr. Norvig.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2018

When I was young, I used to solder circuits and assemble machine code by hand.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2017

This includes reverse-engineering many products' machine code to turn it into a lower-level computer language that can be understood by humans.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2015

Fly says, and even though he is speaking to me in machine code language, I can tell he is the human emotion of nervous.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

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