The term binary data has various meanings in different technical fields. In general, it refers to a unit of data which can take on only two possible values, traditionally termed 0 and 1 in accordance with the binary numeral system. Related concepts in various fields are *logical value (or "truth value") in logic, which represents the truth or falsehood of a logical proposition
- Boolean value, a representation of the concepts "true" or "false" used to do Boolean arithmetic in logic and computer science
- binary digit, a single 0 or 1 in a binary number, used to represent numbers in base 2 (the binary numeral system)
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