the sense of the minimal unit of information like a single bit can either be 0 or 1 and sometimes the minimum that you can send across in terms of information just an outer 0 or a 1 because there's two options you can send information across if you have only one option while there's nothing you can do there's no information be transmitted so in fact often as we'll see the way information gets better than the size of well the amount of information your system gets measured is by bits the mineral number of bits required to