Characters 3
Explain why communication systems, that enable the use of emojis, will make use of the Unicode character set instead of the ASCII character set.
Explain why communication systems, that enable the use of emojis, will make use of the Unicode character set instead of the ASCII character set.
The following table shows the ASCII codes for several characters. Character ASCII Code A 65 B 66 C 67 D 68 Explain, with an example, how a computer would represent ‘DAB’ in ASCII.
Why might computer scientists prefer to work with hexadecimal numbers, compared to binary numbers?
Describe the binary shift that has taken place to alter the binary number with denary value 216, to a denary value of 54.
Describe the binary shift that can be carried out on a binary number, which will multiply the number by 4.
What is meant by the term ‘Overflow Error’, that may result when adding two 8-bit binary numbers together?
Providing approximations only, how many bytes are in: – A Megabyte? – A Kilobyte? – A Gigabyte? – A Petabyte? – A Terabyte?
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