The process of converting a continuous signal to a series of 1s and 0s introduces small errors to the sound as it is recorded. What is this process called?

Converting a continuous signal into digital values requires rounding each sampled amplitude to one of a finite set of levels. That rounding creates small differences between the original sound and its digital representation, called quantization error. A sampling error instead relates to how often the signal is measured.

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