Images can be digitized by treating them as a series of colored dots.

Semiconducting materials are substances with properties between that of a conductor and an insulator.

The fewer samples you take of a sound wave, the closer your points come to approximating the full wave pattern. _________________________

A(n) megabyte is 1,024 bytes. _________________________

The prefix peta represents a quintillion. _________________________

Used to create the items contained in the carriers in the accompanying figure, silicon and germanium are capacitor materials. _________________________

A(n) integrated circuit (housed inside the items shown in the accompanying figure) is a super-thin slice of semiconducting material packed with microscopic circuit elements such as wires, transistors, capacitors, logic gates, and resistors. _________________________

____ data is represented by an infinite scale of values.

Data refers to the symbols that represent ____.

The difference between data and information is that ____.

A(n) ____ device works with discrete data or digits, such as 1 or 0.

____ data consists of numbers that might be used in arithmetic operations.

Most computers store data in a(n) ____ format as a series of 1s and 0s.

The 1s and 0s that a computer works with are referred to as ____ digits.

Computers represent numeric data using the ____ number system.

The number two is represented in binary as ____.

____ provides codes for 128 characters, including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, punctuation symbols, and numerals.

____ provides codes for 256 characters, including letters, punctuation symbols, numerals, and characters like boxes, circles, and other graphical symbols.

In Extended ASCII, the eighth bit provides codes for ____ additional characters.

____ data is composed of letters, symbols, and numerals that will not be used in arithmetic operations.

All of the following are numeric data EXCEPT ____.

____ is an alternative 8-bit code usually used by older, IBM mainframe computers.

____ uses 16 bits and provides codes for 65,000 characters.

____ is usually a prefix that means 1,000.

A ____ is 1,024 bits.

The prefix ____ means billion.

A(n) ____, housed in the items shown in the accompanying figure, is a super-thin slice of semiconducting material packed with microscopic circuit elements such as wires, transistors, capacitors, logic gates, and resistors.