what does "vector" mean in computer science? I am trying to understand how computers work under the hood, and I came across following sentence. 

"Computer technology is based on electronic circuits able to process vectors of 0's and 1's. For that reason all data are encoded by strings of 0's and 1's."

So does the vector mean normal string/number 0 and 1?

Thank you
Vector here is essentially the same as string, sequence, or array, with the possible connotation of having fixed length.

Here is another way to express the same idea:


  Computer hardware operates on bits. Therefore we have to encode all data in bits before a computer can process it.