Tuesday, 11 December 2012

chapter 2 theory

Chapter 2 Theory: Computer logic


  •  2-state device: it's like a switch on a wall,it can either be on or off
  • Binary: is a number system. It represents two-states because it has only two digits; 0 &1.
  • ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is used to represent characters in binary. It has 256 different characters. 
  • Unicode: it is the same as the ASCII but it has more characters.
  • With 3 bits we can represent 8 different values and with 4 bits we can represent 16 different values.