
68 ◾ Information Systems: What Every Business Student Needs to Know
month in which someone was born, the intensity of a color component at a specic point
on a display, part of a sound wave in a song. Its interpretation is up to the program that
will process it.
Just as we use several bits to represent characters that we cannot represent in a single
bit, we use several bytes to represent data that we cannot represent in a single byte. Two
bytes can store the Postal Service code for a U.S. state. ree bytes can store color infor-
mation for a point on a display: red, green, and blue color components, with the intensity
of each as a number f ...