ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Alu sequence

Okay, let me explain it to you like you're five years old! An ALU sequence is like a person working in a factory. They are responsible for doing math problems like adding and subtracting numbers.

Now, imagine you have two numbers, and you want to add them together. You send one number to one worker, and the other number to a different worker. They both solve the problem and send their answers back to the factory manager.

The factory manager takes the two answers and tells the workers what to do next (like adding the two answers together to get the final answer). This is kind of like what happens in a computer's ALU sequence.

The ALU sequence is made up of tiny "workers" called gates. They take in two numbers, and then they figure out what operation (addition, subtraction, etc.) to perform on those numbers. Once the gates are finished, they send their answers to the next set of gates, and so on, until the final answer is produced.

Just like how the factory manager tells the workers what to do next, the computer's control unit tells the gates in the ALU sequence what to do next. And just like how the workers in the factory work very fast, the gates in the ALU sequence can perform millions of calculations every second!

So, that's what an ALU sequence is - it's like a math factory inside of a computer where tiny workers (gates) work together to solve math problems lightning-fast!