Could someone kindly explain to me exactly how “binary” numbers relate to my everyday programming?

Binary trees (one of your tags), particularly binary search trees are practical for some everyday programming scenarios (e.g. Sorting).

Here is a brief history to help your understanding and I will get to your question at the end.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.