The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a contraction of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as either "1"or"0", but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, +/−, or on/off are commonly used.
The correspondence between these values and the physical states of the underlying storage or device is a matter of convention, and different assignments may be used even within the same device or program. It may be physically implemented with a two-state device.
The symbol for the binary digit is either "bit" per recommendation by the IEC 80000-13:2008 standard, or the lowercase character "b", as recommended by the IEEE 1541-2002 standard.
A contiguous group of binary digits is commonly called a bit string, a bit vector, or a single-dimensional (or multi-dimensional) bit array.
A group of eight binary digits is called one byte, but historically the size of the byte is not strictly defined. Frequently, half, full, double and quadruple words consist of a number of bytes which is a low power of two.
In information theory, one bit is the information entropy of a binary random variable that is 0 or 1 with equal probability, or the information that is gained when the value of such a variable becomes known. As a unit of information, the bit is also known as a shannon, named after Claude E. Shannon.
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Right?
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Homework Statement
Suppose a computer has 8-bit words. How many different integers can be represented (in decimal) in a single word if the integers are represented in binary coded decimal(BCD)? Homework Equations
BCD= Binary Coded DecimalThe Attempt at a Solution
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Homework Statement
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Homework Statement
This problem is for a cordless drill.
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Homework Equations
[PLAIN][PLAIN]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3511/drill2.jpg
where N denotes number of teeth
w denotes angular velocity
The Attempt at a...
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Homework Statement
Take the integral of
1/[(z^2 + x^2) ^ 3/2] dx where z is a constant.
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
I tried substitution, but couldn't get it to work. Thanks in advance.
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Homework Statement HI
This 4 bit ALU requires 8 functions in a bit slice, and satisfies following criteria
Also, it can only be constructed via basic logic gate..and,or,not,xor...
No filp-flop...etc.
S1 S2 S3 OUTPUT
0 0 0 Shift A Through (X = A)
0 0 1 Shift input A Left (X = A...
i have attached a picture showing the problem;
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http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5412/questionsq.jpg
The Attempt at a Solution
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Homework Statement
The Hungarian national highway M7 is made of concrete blocks 4m long. The joints have a small gap.
Józsi have a mass of 80 kg.
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At what speed would Józsi's car disintegrate?
Homework Equations
v =...
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Homework Statement
I want to write the following if statement into simply manipulations using the bit operations: ! ^ & | << >> ~ +
Given an x...
if ( x == -1 || x == 0)
return -1;
else
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Homework Statement
I am wondering is there a way to count the number of bits to the left or right of a given 1 in a 32-bit integer?
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The catch...
Hi all,
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Statics assignment a bit urgent
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