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Data Storage: Dr. M. Tanvir Afzal

Bits are the basic unit of digital information that can have a value of 0 or 1. They are used to represent numeric, text, audio, video, and image data through patterns of 0s and 1s. The document discusses the basics of bits and how they are used to represent information, defines units like bytes for measuring digital storage, shows the patterns produced by different numbers of bits, and provides an example of converting a decimal number to binary.

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Data Storage: Dr. M. Tanvir Afzal

Bits are the basic unit of digital information that can have a value of 0 or 1. They are used to represent numeric, text, audio, video, and image data through patterns of 0s and 1s. The document discusses the basics of bits and how they are used to represent information, defines units like bytes for measuring digital storage, shows the patterns produced by different numbers of bits, and provides an example of converting a decimal number to binary.

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Data Storage

Bits

Dr. M. Tanvir Afzal


Bits

Basics:

 Information is coded as pattern of 0 or 1


 Short form of Binary Digits
 One bit can contain only one value 0 or 1

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Bits

What they can represent:


 Representing numbers, text, audio, video,
image etc
 In Chip electric Charge 0/1

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Bytes and other units

Different Units

Bytes 1 Bits 8
Kilo Byte 1 Bytes 1024
Mega Byte 1 Kilo Bytes 1024
Giga Byte 1 Mega Byte 1024
Tera Byte 1 Giga Byte 1024
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Patterns using Bits
 1 bit - 2 patterns
 2 bits - 4
 3 bits - 8
 4 bits - 16
 5 bits - 32
 6 bits - 64
 7 bits - 128
 8 bits - 256 - one byte
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Bytes and Characters

 A = 65
 B = 66
 a = 97
 Space = 32

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Decimal to Binary

Lets represent 25 in binary

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1

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Summary

Bits and Bytes


 Basics
 Binary Representation
 Units
 Patterns
 How to represent a decimal value in
Binary

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