CGS 2100C Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: 5,6,7,8, Binary System, Magnetic Storage
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If you can"t find out what it is, how do you know what you"re looking at? (cid:863) alice in. What is information: knowledge in its various forms in many ways: Information handling: the act of informing in business consists of: Hiring knowledgeable employees to get the highest performance quality. Providing employees w/ needed info & necessary training: the condition of being informed necessitates that executives get the knowledge they need for their job and be able to communicate needed knowledge wherever that may be useful. Types of information: conventional: any raw info saved on any type of basic media. Disks and optical media: coded: using any code to represent it: Encryption: still widely used for information security: digital: use numerals to represent data and numbers. Digital information- mayan numeration system: uses o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:1006) (cid:272)odes to (cid:271)uild the (cid:374)u(cid:373)e(cid:396)atio(cid:374) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373): dot a(cid:374)d (cid:862)-(cid:862, 5 dots make a bar.