Digital vs. Analogue
Computers are digital devices. What is digital information and how is it different from analogue information? …
Digitizing Colours
Computers are digital machines. They operate on digits (well, specifically on electrical signals, but the best way our human brains can understand those on/off switches is in the numbers of
Megabytes and Mebibytes
Computers, as electronic devices, function at their most basic level as a vast series of electric switches, turning off and on. Each switch state is known as a bit, which
Bits
Whenever people talk or write about computers, they use the term BITS: “bits of information,” “megabits,” “bits per second,” etc. BIT is short for Binary digIT. Binary means “two” and digits refer