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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: Stanford University - Bits, Bytes, and Binary. | Oct 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegie Mellon University - Introduction to Binary (PDF). | Sep 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Babylon - Binary Arithmetic (PDF). | Aug 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ACM Digital Library - Bit Manipulation Accelerator for Communication Systems Digital Signal Processor (PDF). | Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Bits, Bytes and Data Types. | Nov 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - Bits, Bytes, and Binary. | Aug 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lifewire - What is a Bit in Computer Networking? | Jan 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - Binary Numbers. | Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of New Mexico - Computer Concepts and Terminology - Binary Representation. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engineering LibreTexts - A bit of information theory. | Jun 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History-Computer - What is a Bit in Computing, and What does it Equal? | Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - How bits and bytes work. | Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| Added material about how bits are represented in computers as voltages. | May 24, 2021 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Computer - How Bits and Bytes Work. | Jun 06, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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