How Does A Computer Represent Data?
.....by using two unique binary digit 1 and 0to represent thetwo states of on and off.
......a computer circuit represents the 0 or the 1 electronically by the presence or absence of an electrical charge
*computer recognizes only two discrete electrical states (on and off)
BIT -is the smallest unit of data the computer can process ( BINARY DIGIT )
-the number of the system has two unique digit, 1(ON) or 0(OFF)
-represents an electrical state (on or off)
BYTE-a group of 8 bits
-represents a single character such as a digit, a letter, a punctuation mark, or any symbol in computer.
- ASCII(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most widely used coding scheme to represent data
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