Conversion
Size Matters
HodgePodge
Vocabulary
Hodgepodge-2
100

Binary to Decimal

1010

What is 10?

100

The number of bits in 5 bytes

What is 40?

100

A continuous representation - with infinite possibilities

What is analog?

100

The number of values represented by a single binary digit

What is 2?

100

A representation of discrete data - finite possibilities

What is Digital?

200

Decimal to Binary

31

1 1111 or

0001 1111

200

Compression technique that reduces file size by discarding some of the orginal file's data

What is lossy?

200

Representation of the color white with 3 bits

What is 111?
200

An author wants to give people free access to their work, so they add it to this collection

What is Creative Commons?

200

At its lowest level, all data stored digitally are represented using this.

What are bits?
300

Binary to Decimal

0100 0001

What is 65?

300

Type of compression used for text messages and important data to be sure no data is lost.

What is lossless?

300

The error caused when you are unable to accurately represent a number like 9.67

What is a Round-off error?

300
Creating a digital representation of something analog by measuring analog data at regular intervals. 

What is sampling?

300

The larger of the two numbers:

1100 0001 or 

1011 1110

What is 1100 0001?

400

Decimal to Binary

50

11 0010

or 0011 0010

400

Often used for music and video streaming to create smaller files. Once a smaller file, always a smaller file.

What is Lossy compression?

400
Number of possible colors when RGB have 2 bits each.

What is 64?

400

A work or invention someone created. Sometimes people apply for copyrights on it.

What is Intellectual Property?

400

Name the compression: A music streaming service wants to offer a large catalog of songs to users without consuming extra bandwidth.

What is lossy?

500

Binary to Decimal

1011 1010

What is 186?

500

Error caused when you have 4 bits to represent the decimal number 16.

What is an overflow error?

500

The number of bits needed to assign each student in this class a unique binary sequence as an ID number

What is 6 bits?

500

The term used to describe hiding complexity rather than surfacing it

What is Abstraction?

500

Name the compression: a hospital needs to preserve patient records in high-quality formats.

What is lossless compression?