In this two-part series, Martin Vlietstra will be looking at how digitisation is applied to measuring devices: In Part 1, he will examine what “digitisation” is and explain how it is applied to thermometers. In Part 2, he will look at how it is applied to weighing devices.
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What are binary prefixes?
When four new SI prefixes were added to the International System of Units (SI) in November 2022, one of the main reasons cited for their need was for their use in data science, where the numbers involved in describing quantities of information have become ever larger. e.g. The amount of data generated by the internet is projected to hit 175 zettabytes by 2025.
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