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Binary Data

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Binary Data
Data in an ‘either-or’ format, i.e., in two mutually exclusive categories
Examples Alive/dead; sick/well; pregnant/not; high/sober; benign/malignant


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In the new demonstration, NIST researchers repeatedly performed a combined sequence of five quantum logic operations and ten transport operations while reliably maintaining the 0s and 1s of the binary data stored in the ions, which serve as quantum bits (qubits) for a hypothetical quantum computer, and retaining the ability to subsequently manipulate this information.
Commonly used hard drives are metal discs made up of millions of tiny spaces, called domains, in which all the atoms are magnetised in one direction or the other to represent binary data.
In analog-to-digital conversion, all data that moves between the MTU and the RTUs is binary data.
 
 
 
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