That is because the computer does not store an image of the fingerprint itself.
They made sense in 1950, before any computer could store even a mere million bits.
The players' computers store some of the data, and a remote server provides the rest.
The computer would store the instructions in some kind of memory.
Each takes an image and translates it into digital information that a computer can store.
They came up with a couple of ideas you might like, things that the computer doesn't have stored.
Many computers have not stored the date of 29 February in the year 2000.
If its value is 127 and it is instructed to add one, the computer can not store the number 128 in that space.
A bit is the smallest amount of information that a computer can store, ie 0 or 1.
Many companies use computers to store and retrieve data on their clients.