Digital

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• The technology of computers where all information is encoded as bits of ones or Zeros. Electronic data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive. Positive is expressed or represented by the number 1 and non-positive by the number 0. Thus, data transmitted or stored with digital technology is expressed as a string of 0’s and l’s. Each of these state digits is referred to as a bit and a string of bits that a computer can address individually as a group is a byte.^[1]

• A system of mathematics consisting solely of zeros and ones. The mathematics used by digital computers. Used to represent characters and numbers and to mathematically manipulate these.^[2]

• Storing information as a string of digits – namely “1”s and “0”s.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
2. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.
3. ^  Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms.