From e7f586fb369541b4c71b9ba7f02f9020c7118788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rihanna P <114884466+RihannaP@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:08:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Answered number systems questions --- number-systems/README.md | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/number-systems/README.md b/number-systems/README.md index 77a3bde..58a26e4 100644 --- a/number-systems/README.md +++ b/number-systems/README.md @@ -5,61 +5,61 @@ Do not convert any binary numbers to decimal when solving a question unless the The goal of these exercises is for you to gain an intuition for binary numbers. Using tools to solve the problems defeats the point. Convert the decimal number 14 to binary. -Answer: +Answer: 1110 Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal: -Answer: +Answer: 45 Which is larger: 1000 or 0111? -Answer: +Answer: 1000 Which is larger: 00100 or 01011? -Answer: +Answer:01011 What is 10101 + 01010? -Answer: +Answer: 1111 What is 10001 + 10001? -Answer: +Answer: 100010 What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0? -Answer: +Answer: 15 How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 255 inclusive? -Answer: +Answer:8 bits How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 3 inclusive? -Answer: +Answer: 2 bits How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 1000 inclusive? -Answer: +Answer: 10 How can you test if a binary number is a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)? -Answer: +Answer: Search for if it has one 1 Convert the decimal number 14 to hex. -Answer: +Answer: E Convert the decimal number 386 to hex. -Answer: +Answer: 182 Convert the hex number 386 to decimal. -Answer: +Answer: 902 Convert the hex number B to decimal. -Answer: +Answer: 11 If reading the byte 0x21 as a number, what decimal number would it mean? -Answer: +Answer: 33 If reading the byte 0x21 as an ASCII character, what character would it mean? -Answer: +Answer: ! If reading the byte 0x21 as a greyscale colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean? -Answer: +Answer: dark gray If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as an RGB colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean? -Answer: +Answer: it has full blue + dark red ~ purple If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be? -Answer: +Answer:170, 0, 255 From ba305264ca5b7326505545caa1c8fabc134f1662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rihanna P <114884466+RihannaP@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 01:32:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add changes based on the review --- number-systems/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/number-systems/README.md b/number-systems/README.md index 58a26e4..02eceba 100644 --- a/number-systems/README.md +++ b/number-systems/README.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Which is larger: 00100 or 01011? Answer:01011 What is 10101 + 01010? -Answer: 1111 +Answer: 11111 What is 10001 + 10001? Answer: 100010