Fundamental unit of information

[Pythagorean]

Is there such a concept in information theory?

I.e. Something as complex as language can be reduced to 1's and 0's. Is binary the fundamental unit of information?

 

[Gigasoft]

Not really. Although a bit is the smallest amount of information that can be represented, it is clearly possible for a system to represent an amount of information that is greater than 1 bit but smaller than 2 bits.