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DATA REPRESENTATION..............................................................................................................................2
TYPES OF DATA........................................................................................................................................2
BITS AND BYTES.......................................................................................................................................3
DATA COMPRESSION...............................................................................................................................4

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DATA REPRESENTATION
DATA- refers to the symbols that represents people events things and ideas, data can be a
name a number the colors in a photograph or nodes in a musical composition

DATA REPRESENTATION-refers to the form in which data is stored processed transmitted and
displayed

DIGITAIZATION-is the process of converting information such as texts numbers photos or music
into digital data that can be manipulated by electronic device

Data in a computer is represented using zeros and ones referred to as binary digits

A digital file usually referred to as simply a file is a named collection of data that exists on a
storage media

TYPES OF DATA
Numeric data- consists of numbers that can be used in arithmetic operations. The digital
devices represent numeric data using the binary number system also called base 2

Character data-composed of letters symbols or numerals that are not used in calculations,
commonly referred to as texts. Digital devices employ several types of codes to represent types
of data including ASCII (American standard code for information interchange) requires
7numericals for each bit

Extended ASCII is a super set of ASCII and uses 8 bits for each character

Using 8 bits instead of allows the extended ASCII to provide codes for 256 characters

Unicode-it uses 16bits and provides for 65000 characters this is a bonus for representing
multiple languages

ASCII codes are used for numerals such as social security and phone numbers,

plain and formatted texts is sometimes called the ascii text and is sometimes stored as a text
file with a name ending with .the ascii text contains no formatting

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BITS AND BYTES
All of the data stored and transmitted by digital devices is encoded as bits. The terminology related to
bits and bytes is extensively used to describe the storage capacity and network access speed a group of
8 bits is called a byte and is usually represented as an uppercase B

BIT ONE BINARY DIGIT


byte 8 bits
Kilo bite 1024 or 210 bits
kilo byte 1024 or 210 bits
Mega bit 1048576 or 220 bits
Mega byte 1048576 or 220bytes
Giga bytes 230bits
Giga bit 2

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DATA COMPRESSION
Refers to any technique that records the data in a file so that it contains fewer bits compression
is commonly referred to as zipping. The compression techniques is divided into two categories

The lossless compression, Lossy compression

Lossless compression It provides a way to compress data and reconstitutes it to its original
states while lossi technique throws away some of the original data during the compression
process

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