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Understanding Data Structure: Chapter 01 - Introduction to Data

Introduction to Data

"A binary number system, in mathematics, positional numeral system employing 2 as the base and so requiring only
two different symbols for its digits, 0 and 1."
Encyclopaedia Britannica

An computer logical system are made of commutators called "transistors" theses devices can be in one of two possible states, enable or disable. An computer its a machine that can manipulate binary numbers, its logical values are storage in units called "bit".
Binary number system, in mathematics, its positional numeral system employing 2 as the base and so requiring only two different symbols for its digits, 0 and 1.

Bit - The smallest unit of information in a computer, that can storage one binary value.

But a bit is too small to storage more complex data than 0 or 1. So the bits are grouped in 8, this groups are called of byte.

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