01:198:110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lossless Compression, Lossy Compression, Color Depth

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:110
• Professor: Alan Belowich

Document Summary

Binary representation of data system that denotes all numbers using combinations of 0 and 1. Metadata the octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. 256 unique ordered patterns of 8 bits (2^8) Also used to represent characters a z. Has 16 bits for 65536 distinct codes (2^16) Method of compression where data is permanently lost. Method of compression where recreation of the compressed file recreates the original without loss of any data (zip file format). 56666671 56(5)71 the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media. It provides information about a certain item"s content. For example, an image may include metadata that describes how large the picture is, the color depth, the image resolution, when the image was created, and other data.