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Characters are first given an internationally agreed decimal value. The decimal value is converted to binary by the computer. For example... the decimal value for the letter A is 65... this converts to binary as 1000001
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∙ 12y agoThe most common and simple way to do this is using ASCII. Every byte is linked to a certain character or interpunction mark.
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What are bytes used to represent?
bytes are used to represent the amount of capacity in a memory
1 What is a Byte?
The combination of bits used to represent a particular letter number or character. e.g.: data bytes,
How many bytes are used to represent one character?
In the UTF 8 standard of representing text, which is the most commonly used has a varying amount of bytes to represent characters. The Latin alphabet and numbers as well as commonly used characters such as (but not limited to) <, >, -, /, \, $ , !, %, @, &, ^, (, ), and *. Characters after that, however, such as accented characters and different language scripts are usually represented as 2 bytes. The most a character can use is 4, I think (Can someone verify? I can't seem to find the answer).
Four bytes can represtent a decimal number between 0 and?
Four bytes represent 32 bits. 32 bits represent 4,294,967,296 possibilities.
Character use only one byte why Java use two byte for character?
The number of bytes used by a character varies from language to language. Java uses a 16-bit (two-byte) character so that it can represent many non-Latin characters in the Unicode character set.
How many bytes for unsigned character?
One.
What does Mega Byte mean in the computer?
A megabyte is one million bytes, each byte being a sequence of 8 bits, which is enough information to represent one character of alphanumeric data.
1 word is equal to how many bytes?
every character consumes 2 bytes. so if your word has 4 characters then it will consume 8 bytes.
What is the storage space required for a character?
1 bytes
How much is one MB?
1 MB (megabyte) equals 1048576 bytes. In most operating systems that are 32-bit, 1 ASCII character takes up 1 byte (8 bits). However, recently, the unicode system of character representation has upped the number of bytes required to represent alphabets of all popular languages in the world.
How do computers represent data needed to solve problems?
Primarily bytes.
How many bytes is billion?
4 bytes are enough to represent any integer in a range of approximately -2 billion, to +2 billion.
