When numbers, letters or words are represented by a special group of symbols, this process is called __________

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Number System and Codes topics include: Number systems, complements of 1, 2, 9 and 10, BCD and arithmetic operations. In digital electronics, a number system represents information. The most common number systems are decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal. The base, or radix, of a number system is the number of digits used in the system.  The binary number system uses only two symbols, 0 and 1, to represent numbers. The binary digits or bits 0 and 1 represent the absence and presence of an electronic pulse, respectively. The leftmost bit is the Most Significant Bit (MSB), and the rightmost... Show more

When numbers, letters or words are represented by a special group of symbols, this process is called __________