If images are composed of the horizontal and vertical formation of pixels on a screen, what is “sound” as a data type?

Question

I’m not a CS graduate or anything. I am a self-taught developer. This is what I’ve been wondering quite a while now.

I kinda know how images work. Yes, the format specifications might differ. A PNG file and a JPG file are different about how they *store* the image data. However, at the end of the day, images are the horizontal and vertical formation of pixels on a screen.

Yet, I do not know what a “sound” is. Images have a unit like “pixel”, what is the unit of sound?

Please note that I’m talking about “sound” as data, not as a physical event.

In: Technology

Answer 1

There are many different formats of sound such as wav and mp3 but if I’m right the data is stored in bytes