Chapter 7: Representing Information Digitally

Question 1

What is a bit?

Answer 1

the information produced in one PandA observation

Question 2

What is PandA?

Answer 2

Presence and Absence

Question 3

How do we determine the number of possible patterns from a number of bits in sequence?

Answer 3

You solve for 2 to the power of n bits. This will give you the number of possible patterns.

Question 4

What is the binary number system?

Answer 4

It is the the way that computers represent information, using 0 and 1. Or representing numbers in base 2

Question 5

What does the hexadecimal system use?

Answer 5

Base 16 [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F]