Bits, Bytes, and Binary
Quiz
Which of the following lists of terms usually describe a bit in the same state?
- 1, ON, LO, TRUE, CLEARED
- 0, OFF, LO, FALSE, CLEARED
- 1, ON, HI, FALSE, SET.
- 0, ON, LO, TRUE, SET
What is a byte?
- A generic term for the smallest addressable amount of memory on a processor.
- A collection of exactly eight bits.
- Any collection of two or more bits.
- A digital system.
How can we change individual bits if the smallest addressable amount of memory is greater than one bit?
- We use operations that have the effect of reading and writing individual bits even though they are working with a larger data size.
- Even though we may have to address a memory block larger than one bit, there are always operators that allow us to address individual bits as well.
- By placing the processor in its bit-addressable mode.
- We can't - we have to live with the fundamental limits of the processor we are working with.
How many values can 16 bits represent?
- 256
- 1,024
- 65,536
- 1,048,576
What is the largest decimal value that a 32 bit pure binary value can represent.
- 4,294,96,7294
- 4,294,967,295
- 4,294,967,296
- 4,294,967,297
As an 8-bit pure binary integer, what how is the value 42 represented?
- 1011 1111
- 0100 1011
- 0010 1010
- 0001 1110
What is the decimal representation of 1011 1111 when interpretted as a pure binary value?
- 42
- 131
- 191
- 207
How many bits are required to be able to represent all ten of the decimal digits?
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
What is "bit" short for?
- bitwise.
- Binary Information Token
- It simply means one bit - as in one tiny piece - of information.
- Binary digit.
When and by whom was the term "byte" coined?
- Alan Turing, sometime during WWII while working to break German naval ciphers.
- Dr. Werner Buchholz of IBM in 1956 as part of an effort to standardize computer character sets.
- Bill Gates in the 1980 documentation for the original version of MS-DOS.
- Dr. Richard P. Feynman during his 1965 Nobel Prize acceptable speech.