What led to the reduction in size of the modern day computer system?

Transistors , as in the past vacuum tubes were used which took much larger space.

Now with transistor you can create very complicated logical circuits in very limited space. 

These are very for instance for math pemdas parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction without that i would never be able to remember what to do first with it i can remember.

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