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Nebraska CS Glossary

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Bit General

Bit means "binary digit". A bit is a single digit in a binary number. A bit can either be 0 or 1.

Byte General

A byte is 8 bits.

Kilobyte General

A kilobyte (kB) is 2^10 bytes (1024 bytes) of binary data.

Megabyte General

A megabyte (MB) is 2^20 bytes (1024 kB) of binary data.

Gigabyte General

A gigabyte (GB) is 2^30 bytes (1024 MB) of binary data.

Pixel General

Images are made up of pixels, which are essentially a grid of values. Each value, or pixel, encodes the color at that position in the image.

RGB Color Encoding General

The RGB encoding scheme allows us to encode colors as numeric data. It defines the amount of Red, Green, and Blue light in a pixel. Each color channel can have a value between 0 and 255.

Terabyte General

A terabyte (TB) is 1024 GB of binary data.