Representing Data

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  • Created on: 14-12-17 11:00
What is information?
Information is data that has been processed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who receives it.
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What is data?
Data consist of raw facts and figures - it does not have any meaning until it is processed and turned into something useful.
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what is the value of a bit?
0 or 1
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what is a single character represented by?
one byte or 8 bits
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what is a nibble?
four bits
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how many bytes are in a kilobyte?
1024
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1024 kilobytes make what?
1 megabyte
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what is the next thing bigger than a megabyte?
a gigabyte
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1024 gigabytes make what?
a terabyte
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name 3 data types
numeric, date/time and character/string
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what is numeric?
an integer (postive or negative whole numbers) or a real number (include whole numbers and numbers with decimal/fractional parts)
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what is date/time?
determines the way that the date or time appears when it is displayed or printed.
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what is character/string?
a character is a single letter or digit represented by codes from a character set used by the computer. a string is textual data in the form of a sequence of characters from a character set.
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What is data?

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Data consist of raw facts and figures - it does not have any meaning until it is processed and turned into something useful.

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what is the value of a bit?

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what is a single character represented by?

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what is a nibble?

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