diff --git a/Electronics_and_Hardware/Binary/Binary_units_of_measurement.md b/Electronics_and_Hardware/Binary/Binary_units_of_measurement.md index ba1ac64..3fa5334 100644 --- a/Electronics_and_Hardware/Binary/Binary_units_of_measurement.md +++ b/Electronics_and_Hardware/Binary/Binary_units_of_measurement.md @@ -3,22 +3,22 @@ title: Binary units of measurement categories: - Computer Architecture - Mathematics -tags: [bits, binary] +tags: [binary] --- # Binary units of measurement -A single place or symbol in a decimal number is called a **digit**. For example the number 343 is a number containing three digits. A digit can be any numeral through 0-9. +A single place or symbol in a decimal number is called a **digit**. For example the number 343 is a number containing three digits. A digit can be any one of the ten numerals through 0-9. -The equivalent entity in the [binary number system](/Electronics_and_Hardware/Binary/Binary_number_system.md) is the **bit**. For example the binary number 110 has three bits. A bit can only have one of two values in contrast to a digit which can have one of ten values: 0 or 1. +The equivalent entity in the [binary number system](/Electronics_and_Hardware/Binary/Binary_number_system.md) is the **bit**. For example the binary number 110 has three bits. A bit can only have one of two values in contrast to a digit which can have one of ten values. These values are 0 and 1. ## Sequences of bits ### Informational complexity -The informational complexity of digit is much larger than a bit: it can represent one of 10 states whereas a bit can only represent one of two states. +The informational complexity of a single digit is much larger than a single bit: it can represent one of 10 states whereas a bit can only represent one of two states. -We can think of how much data can be stored in a number in terms of the total number of unique arrangemnets of bits or digits. With this in mind, compare a two digit digital number to a two bit binary number. For the decimal number each digit can represent one of ten states, hence the total number of unique states is equal to $2^{10} (1024)$: +We can think of how much data can be stored in a number in terms of the total number of unique arrangements of bits or digits. With this in mind, compare a two digit digital number to a two bit binary number. For the decimal number each digit can represent one of ten states, hence the total number of unique states is equal to $2^{10} (1024)$: With the binary number we have $2^{2} (4)$, giving us far fewer possible unique states. They are so few we can easily list them: diff --git a/_scripts/random_revision_topic.sh b/_scripts/random_revision_topic.sh index fddd649..42b301b 100755 --- a/_scripts/random_revision_topic.sh +++ b/_scripts/random_revision_topic.sh @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # This script returns a random topic for me to revise # Choose source directories... -DIRS_TO_PARSE="../Algorithms ../Computer_Architecture ../Databases" +DIRS_TO_PARSE="../Computer_Architecture ../Electronics_and_Hardware ../Operating_Systems ../Programming_Languages/Shell " # Return array of all files belonging to source dirs... for ele in $DIRS_TO_PARSE; do