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data
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quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer
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- Subclass of
- source of information
- Has use
- data processing
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- Category:Computer data
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- Computer data
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- Template:Data
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- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/data_2
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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- computer science
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Encyclopedic overview
Digital clock. The time shown by the digits on the face at any instant is digital data. The actual precise time is analog data.
Digital data or digital information, in information theory and information systems, is data or information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits. An example is a text document, which consists of a string of alphanumeric characters. The most common form of digital data in modern information systems is binary data, which is represented by a string of binary digits (bits) each of which can have one of two values, either 0 or 1.
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