Sunday, November 1, 2009

A Little Bit on Binary Digits

There are 8 bits in one byte; this is because binary numbers double. 1 , 2 ,4 , 8 , 16, ect. Hence forth there are 8 bits in one byte; if there were more it would need to be 16, or less at four. When typing out one character, it will be equal to one byte of space. This is because binary codes are in strings of eight, and that string is used to make up the decimal code that tells the computer what you’re typing. 1 = 00110001 = 1 byte.


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