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Which American mathematician realized that words, sounds, and images could all be represented using a binary code

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Claude Shannon, who realized early on that, as he once put it , a computer is a lot more than an adding machine “The binary digits could be used to represent words , sounds and images — perhaps even ideas ;)
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Claude Shannon. I think, but I'm not sure.

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