Unit 1 - Digital Information Vocabulary

______ is a way of representing information using only two options.

______ is a way of representing information using ten options.

______ is a contraction of 'Binary Digit'; the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.

______ is 8 bits.

______ is an error from attempting to represent a number that is too large.

______ is an error from attempting to represent a number that is too precise. The value is rounded.

______ is data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time. Some examples include music, colors of a painting, or position of a sprinter during a race.

______ is data that changes discretely through a finite set of possible values.

______ is a process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals called samples.

______ is a process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something without losing any information. This process is reversible.