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OCR: COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL BASICS SECTION data processed operations Computers represent this type of data using stored and transmitted as a series of 1s pue 0s Each or0is EBCDIC or Unicode. Data quanti- called series of eight 0s fied using terms such kibibyte and is called represents one char 1024 bytes) and prefixes such acter- letter number or punctuation mark. Data becomes or mebi (1 ,048 ,576 and giga o when presented in a format (1,073 .74 824 The bits that represent data travel as electronic that people can understand and use pulses through circuits data consists of numbers that might be used arithmetic opera sometimes called computer chips These chips are made from tions It can be represented digitally using the materials and are housed n chip carri- number system data composed ers that ...