A bit is like a light switch. It can be either on or off, that’s it. Imagine you have a message made of just these two states: on means yes, off means no. If you use many bits together, they can represent numbers, letters, pictures, even whole movies! This simple idea lets computers do amazing things like store videos and run games.
Examples
- If you have eight switches, each with two states, you can make up to 256 different combinations.
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See also
- What is 37.4 bits?
- What are arithmetic shifts?
- How To Read Text In Binary?
- How Can a Single Atom Hold So Much Information?
- How Do Computers Remember Everything?