CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION
Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive. What is Digital Information 1. Machine language; data stored in zeros and ones. 2. Information that is in digital, electronic form and is stored, manipulated, and displayed by computational tools. Digital information is stored using a series of ones and zeros. Computers are digital machines because they can only read information as on or off -- 1 or 0. This method of computation, also known as the binary system, may seem rather simplistic, but can be used to represent incredible amounts of data. Digital technology is primarily used with new physical communications media, such as satellite and fiber optic transmission. A modem is used to convert the digital information in your computer to analog signals for your phone line and to convert analog phone signals to digital information for your computer. Digital data, in i...