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Bitmaps

1. Most commonly, bitmaps refers to raster graphics.

2. Also, bitmaps refers to arrays of boolean values, when stored efficiently so that 8 array elements are stored to the byte. They are frequently used to indicate whether an allocation unit is free or used in memory management, file systems and databases.


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