DIGITALIZATION OF DATA I

DATA PROCESSING SSS1 FIRST TERM

WEEK 7

DIGITALIZATION OF DATA I

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Digitalization is the process of converting information into digital format. This information may represent an object, image, sound, document or signal (usually an analogue signal) organized into discrete sets of points or samples. This is the binary data that computers and many devices with computing capacity (such as digital cameras and digital hearing aids) can process.

Digitalization can also be defined as the integration of digital technologies into everyday life. The digital system uses a binary numeric system in which electronic pulses are represented by either 0 for a Low pulse or 1 for a High pulse. Digital can more easily represent symbols such as alphanumeric characters that…