Computers transmit information in bits: 0's and 1's. Off or on.

计算机将用“1”或“0”表示的位来传输信息，逻辑属性表示“关或开”。

Because the bits in quantum computing, called quantum bits or qubits, can actually be 0 AND 1 at the same time.

因量子计算中的位“量子比特”或“量子位”，它们能同时既是“0”又是“1”。

The computer or phone or tablet you're using right now renders data in binary bits.

你现在使用的电脑、手机或平板电脑以位来处理数据。

One of the ways to get your head around this is take it as read for a moment that a qubit, unlike a traditional classical binary bit, can represent, you know, essentially a real number or the state to some extent of a system.

理解这一点的一个方法是暂时接受这样一个事实：量子比特与传统的经典位不同，它可以表示一个实数或在某种程度上表示系统的状态。

All this uses up a lot of valuable bandwidth Processing data in space before transmission would reduce clutter but this can be tricky Cosmic rays randomly flip the ones and zeros that computers operate on Introducing unpredictable errors.

所有这些都会占用大量的宝贵带宽。在传输前在太空对数据行处理可以减少杂乱，但这可能会很棘手。宇宙射线会随机翻转计算机操作的位，从而引入不可预测的错误。

The bit of digital binary was invented here, and as an extension, Claude Shannon and John Pierce invented pulse code modulation, which is the way we record sound digitally.

数字位在此诞生，随之而来的是克劳德·香农和约翰·皮尔斯发明了脉冲编码调技术，这正是我们如今以数字方式记录声音的方式。

Each of these three numbers, from 0 to 255, is represented by 8 bits in binary, or 8 1s and 0s, you know, because computers work in binary.

这三个数字， 从0到255，都由8个位表示，也就是8个1或0， 你知道的，因计算机使用运算。

A sequence of bits that is recognized by the processor as one of the instructions in its instruction set.

一串处理器验证过的位的序列，它作其指令集的一个子集。