Terms and Concepts
Representing Signed Integers
Number Systems
Data Representation
More Terms and Concepts
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Data that can be measured and recorded at many different points.
What is continuous data?
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In this notation, bits are flipped and one (1) is added.
What is Two's complement?
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Also referred to as the base 2 number system.
What is Binary?
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This code defines 128 character codes.
What is ASCII?
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All characters that a computer can store and process.
What is character set?
200
A device which can be set to one of two states.
What is a bi-stable device?
200
The seven bit one's complement of the integer 6.
What is 1111001?
200
Any notation for the representation of numbers.
What is Number Systems?
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The 7 bit ASCII code for A.
What is 100 0001?
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A non-printable code that is used to tell the computer to carry out a command.
What is control code?
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An extra binary digit used to check for transmission errors.
What is parity bit?
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In this notation, negative numbers are flipped.
What is One's Complement?
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Another name for base 16.
What is hexadecimal?
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The 7 bit ASCII code for blank. :)
What is 010 0000?
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This representation can convert a binary fraction to decimal/decimal fraction to binary.
What is Fixed Point Representation?
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The process of shifting the binary point in a floating point number so that it is left of the leading 1.
What is normalization?
400
To represent negative numbers in BCD, this four bit representation is placed at the front of the code.
What is 1011?
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The 4 bit representation for the integer 9 in base 10.
What is 1001?
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This is what data represented in computers are made up of. Its types are; number,alphabetic,special and control.
What are characters?
400
In floating point numbers, this is known as the fractional part.
What is the mantissa?
500
Data that can be counted.
What is discrete data?
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In this notation, 1 is represented as the sign bit for negative numbers.
What is Sign and Magnitude representation?
500
The solution to 11 + 3 in binary.
What is 1110?
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The meaning of the acronym ASCII.
What is American Standard Code for Information Interchange?
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The power to which the base is raised. ie. 2
What is the exponent?
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