4.15 Summary

This has been a very long section; so congratulations on your persistence!

I've considered in detail how text, pictures, moving pictures, diagrams and sound can all be reduced to numbers and stored inside the boundary in a computer's memory. A persistent theme has been the sheer size of the digital representation that we can get as the result. The need to reduce this amount of digital data, to compress the image, sound or film file we end up with, is taken up in the next course.