Vocabulary-Comp Sci

Decimal

Decimal

A way of representing information using ten options

Overflow Error

Error from attempting to represent a number that is too large

Round-Off Error

Error from attempting to represent a number that is too long. The value is runded

Protocol

A set of values or procedures for transmitting data between electronic devices, such as computers. In order for computers to exchange information there must be a preexisting agreement as to how the information will be structures and how each side will send and receive.

Analog data

Data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time.

Digital Data

Data that changes discretely through a finite set of possible values sampling

Sampling

A process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals called samples.

Lossless Conpression

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something without losing any information. The process Is revirsible

Lossy Compression

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something in which some information is lost or thrown away. This process isn’t reversible .

Creative Commons

A collection of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copy righted work, used when an author wants, to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created

Intellectual Property

A work or invention thats the result of creativity, such as pece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.

Data Abstraction

The process of simplifying complicated data into manageable chunks

Binary

A way of representing information using only two options

Bit

A contraction of “Binary Digit”, the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as 0 or 1

Byte

8 bits

Decimal

A way of representing information using ten options