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How many characters or symbols can be represented by one eight-bit byte?
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∙ 13y ago
it depend on the language which are you using
if it is c than 1 bytes
if it is java than 2 bytes
and vary for the languages but it is generally either 1 or 2
1 byte =8 bit
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y ago256 possible combinations (from 0 to 255)
A byte is made of 8 bits. Bits can only be on or off (0 or 1).
00000000 =0
11111111 = 255
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∙ 15y agoYou might try the following calculation: there are eight bits in a byte, so it might be 2^8 = 256.
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∙ 13y agoA byte contains 8 bits. So, a byte can store 2^8 differents values, i.e. 256.
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∙ 12y ago1 character is usually 1 byte
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∙ 13y ago28=256
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What usually represents one character of data?
A byte (usually 8 bits). An 8-bit byte allows up to 256 unique characters to be represented, more than enough to accommodate all the letters, digits and punctuation marks in the Latin alphabet.
What is character in java?
A character, or char, is single letter such as 'a'. It's a primitive data type, like int and long, and the letter is always put inside single quotes ' '. The class String, which is used for storing sentences, is made up of a whole bunch of char's put together.
How is ASCII used to represent text in a computer system?
ASCII is a simple (and increasingly obsolete) code which maps alphanumeric characters to numbers in the 0..255 range. Thus, any phrase expressed as a series of these alphanumeric characters can be expressed as a series of bytes with the corresponding numeric values, one byte per character. For example, the letter A is represented by a byte of numerical decimal value 65. It is characteristic for the ASCII code that it supports a limited alphabet of 256 different characters. While this might seem much in light of the fact that the 26 characters cover the A-Z alphabet, codes are assigned to lower-case and upper-case characters, digits, punctuation marks, a wide range of other characters including some simple symbols, and a range of 'foreign characters.' With today's demands on localized software and support for the local alphabet, the ASCII code becomes increasingly obsolete because it cannot support a great number of non-English alphabets.
Why was Unicode created?
256 different characters is not enough Unicode enables the reliable store most of the world's characters in a (2 byte) fixed width mode with 65,564 characters.
Why do need Unicode when you have Ascii?
ASCII only has 127 standard character codes and only supports the English alphabet. While you can use the extended ASCII character to provide a set of 256 characters and thus support other languages there's no guarantee that other systems will use the same code page, so the characters will not display correctly across all systems (the characters you see will depend upon which code page is currently in use). Moreover, some languages, particularly Chinese, have thousands of symbols that simply cannot be encoded in ASCII. UNICODE encoding supports all languages and the first 127 symbols are also the same as ASCII, so all characters appear the same across all systems. UTF8 is the most common UNICODE encoding in use today because it uses one-byte per character for the first 127 characters and is therefore fully compliant with non-extended ASCII. If the most-significant bit is set then the character is represented by 2 or more bytes, the combination of which maps to the UNICODE encoding.
What does a byte represent?
A byte represented of 8 bits
Can a byte hold the value 500?
No. 1 byte = 8 bits. 5000 is represented as 110101110000110000. As the no. of binary digits is more then 8, so 500 cannot be represented in a byte.
How many colours can be represented in a byte?
One byte can represent 256 colours.
What usually represents one character of data?
A byte (usually 8 bits). An 8-bit byte allows up to 256 unique characters to be represented, more than enough to accommodate all the letters, digits and punctuation marks in the Latin alphabet.
Can a byte have 256 characters?
1 byte is 8 bits.
What is the definition of byte?
A Byte is a set of 8 bits. a Bit is an on or an off represented by a 0 or a 1
The largest number that can be represented by one byte is?
The biggest number that can be represented in one byte is 11111111. Binary numbers have the ability to added together in a fashion similar to decimal numbers.
What usually represents one character data?
A byte (usually 8 bits). An 8-bit byte allows up to 256 unique characters to be represented, more than enough to accommodate all the letters, digits and punctuation marks in the Latin alphabet.
How are characters sets and fonts represented in a computer system?
All code and data in a computer system is represented in binary. Characters are represented in a few different ways depending on the language. For the English language, the ASCII character set is perhaps the most common. Using this character set, normally each character is represented by 1 byte (8 bits (8 binary digits)). As an example, a value of 65 is used for A which in binary is 01000001.
What is the smallest decimal number that can be represented by one byte?
-127 or -128
What is character in java?
A character, or char, is single letter such as 'a'. It's a primitive data type, like int and long, and the letter is always put inside single quotes ' '. The class String, which is used for storing sentences, is made up of a whole bunch of char's put together.
Are bits in a byte?
if u bit a dik it past if u byte a dik its present tense.
