Labels:book | hakham | monitor | sky | traffic light OCR: CHAPTER SECTION Digital Data Representation COMPUTERS AND OTHER DIGITAL DEVICES work with all sorts of stuff, including text numbers music, images, speech and video The amazing aspect of digital technology that al these different elements are distilled down to simple pulses of electricity and stored as Os and 1s. Understanding the data representation concepts presented in Section C will help you grasp the essence of the digital world and get handle uo all the jargon pertaining to bits, bytes, megahertz, and gigabytes. DATA REPRESENTATION BASICS What is data? As you learned earlier in the chapter, data refers to the TERMINOL OGY NOTE symbols that represent people events things pue ideas Data can be name number the colors in a photograph, or the notes in a musical com The word data can be co ...
