A unit of measurement for data transmission speed, representing the number of signal changes per second in a communication channel. Often confused with bits per second, though they can be different depending on the encoding method.
Named after Émile Baudot, a French telegraph engineer who developed the Baudot code in the 1870s for telegraphy. The term was officially adopted in the 1920s by the International Telegraph Union. Baudot's work revolutionized telegraph communication by creating a more efficient encoding system.
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