Bit
Living in every piece of intelligent electronics that has a computer chip of some sort, is Bit. He is one of many and loves to explore the digital world. In the end, everything in the computer world revolves around Bit. But here, in Computer Adventures, Bit will gladly be your guide into the world of computers. This particular one loves exploring the different computers that existed in our world and teaching you all about it.
Hover over Bit or click here to see what he says!
With every Bit you add, you get twice as many available patterns and that adds up very quickly. The more combinations there are to make, the more complex it becomes. Fortunately for us, we usually don't see Bit in action in his raw form. Imagine that, having to read everything with a string of ones and zeroes.. we'd go crazy in seconds.
01001000 01101001 00100001 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100111 01110101 01101001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100001
Hi! Let me guide you through the history of Computers!
Hi! Let me guide you through the history of Computers!
Function
Bit is a very simple and enthusiastic little guy. He is either 0 or 1, true or false, yes or no. In computers, he is always the former. Even with just two states, Bit can control everything in computers, especially when he is together with his friends. The more Bits there are, the more complex calculations a computer can do or the more data it can store. When Bit has gathered 7 more friends, they turn into his big brother Byte and venture off to do even more complex and awesome things. But what makes multiple Bits so powerful? He can only be 0 and 1, surely not much changes when there are multiple of him? The strength is in the combinations you can make with multiple bits. Here, have a look at this table:| Number of Bits | Different Patterns |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 1 |
| 2 | 00 01 10 11 |
| 3 | 000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111 |
With 8 Bits like me, I can take on 256 different patterns. Isn't that cool?
Come on, Bit! We are going on an adventure!
01010111 01101000 01100101 01100101 01100101 00100001
Wheee!