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What Is data?
Raw facts and figures, no meaning until turned into something useful
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What is info?
Is data that has been processeed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who recieves it . INFO = DATA + CONTEXT + MEANING
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what is a binary digit?
known as a bit has a value of 0-1 and is smallest unit. groups of bits are called byte, 1 BYTE = 8 BITS. 2 BYTES = 16 BITS
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nibble
4 bits, 2 nibles equals one byte
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Bytes
1024 BYTES, KILOBYTE, MEGABYTE, GIGABYTE, TERABYTE.
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Numeric
Interger numbers = positive or negative whole number, real number = whole numbers and numbers with decimal points, positive or negative
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date/time
the way date ot time appears eg long date, long time
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character
sigle letter or digit represented by codes from a character set used by the computer, string is textual data in a form of a seguen ce of characters from a character set
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pixel
smallest unit of digital that can b displayed and edited o a computer, each pixel has its own colour and when combinedproduce a picture, number of pixels depends on the soze of screen
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Image resolution
quality of a image, represented by 2 numbers eg 1280 x 720, first number = horiszontally, second number is vertically
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bitmap
pixels of diff colours, higher the resolutoion the higher the quailty, can edit each pixel, quite large,takes long tie to load,
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vector
shapes called objects, not much memeory, small size, scalable, dont lose quailty when u resize them, dont depemd on resolution
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What is info?

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Is data that has been processeed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who recieves it . INFO = DATA + CONTEXT + MEANING

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what is a binary digit?

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nibble

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Bytes

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