Some root cause analysis approaches are geared more toward identifying true root causes than others; some are more general problem-solving techniques, while others simply offer support for the core activity of root cause analysis.
All data in modern computers is stored as series of bits. A bit is a binary digit and can have one of two values; the two values are generally represented as the numbers 0 and 1. The most basic form of representing computer data, then, is to represent a piece of data as a string of 1s and 0s, one for each bit.
Binary Numbers. Every piece of data in a computer is stored as a number. For example, letters are converted to numbers, and photographs are converted to a large set of numbers that indicate the color and brightness of each pixel. The numbers are then converted to binary numbers.