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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

digital

Where data is encoded into a series of pulses represented by the binary digits 0 and 1, as opposed to a continuously varying analogue signal.

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Networks and communications technology › data transmission
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