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===Why Study Data Representation?===
<table align="right"><tr><td>[[Image:binary-number1.png|thumb|right|250px150px|A series of binary numbers form a byte to represent numbers.]]</td><td>[[Image:binary-number-2.png|thumb|right|250px|Bytes can be used to also represent characters. It is job of a program to know if bytes are used to represent numbers or characters. Learning to convert numbering systems (like Hexadecimal to Binary) can be used to know how a character is represented at a byte. ]]</td></tr></table>
''Data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols given meaning by specific act(s) of interpretation.
Digital data is data that is represented using the binary number system of ones (1) and zeros (0), as opposed to analog representation.''<br>