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A whole composed of two. The system is a way of counting using just the two numbers 0 and 1 |
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the smallest unit of information the computer uses |
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A byte is a group of 8 bits, strung together |
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the chip which is the brains of the compuer
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metal platter in the hard drive of the computer; it stores large amounts of information
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Is temporary storage space on chips in your computer (Random Access Memory)
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a unit of measure equal to 1,024 bytes, which is about a thousand bytes
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| a unit of measure equal to 1,048,576 bytes, which is about a million bytes |
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| a unit of measure equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is about one billion bytes |
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| IS digital information1 terabyte is 1000000000000bytes |
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temporary storage space on chips in your computer
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the set of codes used to make Web pages
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a tiny picture on the screen that represents a program, file, or folder
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a power supply between computers and electronic devices
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parts of the computer that you can touch
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the programs that run on a computer
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