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ELI5: Does a mouse send 1s and 0s to the computer?

I saw a video saying it tracks and images how the mouse traverses the surface? So does it tell the computer a chain of 1s and 0s to move the cursor?
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it does send 1s and 0s but ultimately what they are interpreted from are numbers that correspond to the change the image sensor at the bottom of the mouse picks up and of course whether the buttons are pressed. 

Your mouse shines an angled light at the mousepad or surface and the sensor next to it is like a tiny(like 18 x 18 pixels) camera that can see the tiny ridges on most surfaces and is always taking lots of little pictures really fast. By lining consecutive images up and looking for the tiny differences in these ridges it can do math as to how fast or far the user moved the mouse across a pad.

It's constantly sending these math answers to the computer, and if you were to look at the memory of the mouse hardware it would be sending this information in binary(1s and 0s) ~~but depending on what you use to read this it could be abstracted into assembly language(which is like shorthand computer code)~~ or full integers of a direction and speed, and true and false for button presses.