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About Audio Audio Formats Copyright Digital Text Sorting and Ordering Text Formats Units of Measurement

Lossy

Definition
Lossy compression, which is the opposite of lossless compression.
Lossless

Definition
Lossless compression, which is the opposite of lossy compression.
Map

Definition
The term map can mean a geographical map, or a mapping such as a key map.
Abstraction

Definition
A way to think of a group of elements by referring instead to a set of common properties that they share.
How MIDI Works?

Explanation
If you have ever seen a a file with the .mid file extension, you may have been surprised: the tiny file only 30 kilobytes in size can store an entire 4 minute long song! How is this possible?
Destructive Editing

Definition
Modifications to a piece of data that permanently modify the data.
Key

Definition
The various meanings of "key" in computers.
ANSI

Definition
American National Standards Institute.
Tag

Definition
A piece of text that categorizes some data, be it an online post, a file, or even another piece of text.
Binary Code

Code that isn't text code, or even image code, but just bits and bytes.
Total Number of Possible Unique Values per Bit Length

List
Reference
For reference, a list with the total number of unique values we have in a sequence of N bits.
How Many Unique Values We Can Store in N Bits?

Explanation
We can calculate it with the formula X = 2^N.
Photo

An image.
Creative Commons

Project that helps people license their copyrighted work so that others can use it for free.
License

Something that grants your permission to do something.
DRM-Free

Refers to digital products sold that can be copied and pasted without trouble, because they're sold without a DRM technology attached on it.
DRM

A term for anti-piracy software and technologies.
Metadata

Data about other data.
Memory

What is "Memory" in a Computer? The term "memory" has multiple meanings when we talk about computers, some of them refer to hardware while other refer to software, for example: Notable Features In general, memory has a fixed size and is addressable by byte offsets. If you have a piece of memory that is 8 […]
Text Code

A code that encodes data in text format, as opposed to binary format or numeric format, e.g. URLs, domain names, filepaths, markdown, hex codes.