Unit 3 Fundamentals of data representation Comp sci
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Section 3 - Fundamentals of data representation
Storage units and binary numbers
1 bit = 1 unit of binary ( 1 or 0)
1 nibble = 4 bits
1 byte = 8 bits
1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes
1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes
Hopefully you know how to count in binary
Binary arithmetic and hexadecimal
Adding in binary is also simple, it's just like denary except each column can only have 1 so if it hits 2 you have to carry over.
An overflow error is where you need an extra bit to carry over but you do not have an extra bit.
Shifting a binary number to the left doubles it
Hexadecimal counts to 16 instead of 10 and 2
It goes: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Converting binary to hexadecimal is easy.
1010 0101
Look at the first 4 numbers and find out the value and then look at the next 4 numbers and do the same
For this example you wend end up with A and 5, so you put them together and you get A5
Hexadecimal is used because it's expressed more compactly than binary and is easier to understand.
Picking colours is 1 application for it.
ASCII and Unicode
ASCII uses binary to represent every character on the keyboard. It uses 7 bits…
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