CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Discretization

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CS100
• Professor: Barbara Csima

Document Summary

A bit of memory: convey information with simple lightbulbs, computers use switches vary with on and off, on and off (1 and 0, 1. traditional light switch, 2. Or switch- one can be on and off: 3. And switch-both have to be on: 4. Not switch: switches are used to store memory, 1 and 0, 1, 0 can be stored in memory, bit stands for binary digit, 8 bits into a byte (8 light switches, 1s and 0s) Billions of switches- 2 reasons, logic and memory.