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Update GUIDE.md #58

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tarrenj commented Jul 20, 2020

Minor tweaks

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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Of course, not all of these repositories are equally important in terms of their

The archive consists of 201 reels of film: one "guide reel" of human-readable information and guidance, and 200 reels of archived software. Each reel includes 65,000 individual frames. The frames at the beginning of each reel, and the frames of the guide reel, include human-readable text and images. All other frames of film consist of digital data stored in a visual form known as QR codes.

Digital data means data ultimately stored in binary format, i.e. as 0s and 1s, because computers themselves are binary -- controlled by electrical signals which are either "on" or "off", corresponding to 1 or 0 -- and so binary data is vastly easier for computers to understand than any other.
Digital data means data ultimately stored in binary format, i.e. as 0s and 1s, because computers themselves are binary -- controlled by electrical signals which are either "on" or "off", corresponding to 1 or 0 -- and so binary data is vastly easier for our current computers to understand than any other.

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Maxim-Mazurok Jul 30, 2020

Future computers might not be binary (i.e., quantum computers), so it's a good clarification.

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