system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 To process images, a computer assigns red, green and blue values to every pixel. How does a computer manage sound? What are the values assigned?
gpt
All sound waves, even complex ones like talking or instruments are just single intensities at single moments in time. You assign each value in time an intensity and when you play it back you get the whole sound. Depending on how finely you chop up the timeline changes how good the sound will be reproduced.