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For most readers of this book, digitization has already become a natural part of their everyday life. In essence, “digitization” refers to the binary representation of texts, images, sounds, films and the properties of physical objects in the form of consecutive sequences of 1s and 0s. These sequences can be processed by modern computers at exceptionally high speeds – billions of commands per second.
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Hippmann, S., Klingner, R., Leis, M. (2019). Digitization – Areas of Application and Research Objectives. In: Neugebauer, R. (eds) Digital Transformation. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58134-6_2
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