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4m: Recall that binary digits represent all information that is stored, transmitted, and processed by computers.
4m: Recall that binary digits represent all information that is stored, transmitted, and processed by computers.
| Keyword | Definition |
|---|---|
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (a way of converting each letter of the latin alphabet into a number so it can be represented in binary) |
| bitmap image | can be represented by binary digits by describing the colour of each using numbers and then converting each number into binary |
| numbers | can be represented in binary by converting from decimal to binary |
| sound | can be represented by binary digits by regularly sampling the amplitude (size) of a sound wave and converting each sample into binary |
| text | can be represented by binary digits by giving each letter a numerical value then converting that into binary |
| vector image | can be represented by binary digits by describing each shape and colour using numbers and then converting each number into binary |
| video | can be represented by binary digits by splitting it into frames of still images and describing each frame as a sequence of coloured pixels and sound |
