Everything Can Become Data
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How text, images, colors, and sound become data.
How Are Numbers Stored in a Computer?
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How Do Letters Become Numbers?
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How Does Sound Become Digital Data?
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What Is an Image Inside a Computer?
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How Does a Computer Understand Chinese?
Chinese characters are represented through character encodings too.
Why Do Photos and Videos Take So Much Space?
Photos contain many pixels, while videos contain many frames and may also include sound.
What Is a Pixel?
A pixel is the smallest image-position unit in a digital bitmap. Each pixel records a color, and many pixels arranged in rows and columns make the photos and screenshots we see.
How Does RGB Create Colors?
RGB is a common way to represent color in digital images and screens. Red, green and blue channels combine to make many colors; with 8 bits per channel, each value usually ranges from 0 to 255.