Why aren't EXE's in binary?

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Published on 2010-03-19T22:42:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 22:51 UTC
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Why is it that if you open up an EXE in a hex editor, you will see all sorts of things. If computers only understand binary then shouldn't there only be 2 possible symbols seen in the file? Thanks

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