04. Data of the Computer

Storing data is always done in binary. The context here is the binary representation of the data. Storing numbers as numbers is one variation of this context. Storing of data is always by binary numbers in a computer. The value interpreted is related to what the data storage area is defined to hold. The system recognizes (by the design of circuits) what the actual value is of a particular bit area in memory. Another variation is data that represents characters (Bytes). There are other variations of storage rules that define data as pictures, as videos or music, and as data for particular applications. The system needs to know what the data represents to be able to use the data.