Monday, April 13, 2015

Assignment #23

1. If you took a picture of your car, could you store that using the ISO 8859-1 character standard?  No you cannot store a picture of your car using the ISO 8859-1 character set because it is used to encode text not pictures.

2. Write the word Hello using the ISO 8859-1 character standard.
0100100001000101010011000100110001001111


a) How many bits did it take? 40 bits
b) How many bytes did it take? 5 bytes
c) Would it take more bytes in memory than in storage? no it would be the same

3. At 10 bits per second, how long would it take to transmit Hello from one computer to another?
4 seconds

4.Which contains more information 100 random bits or 1,000 random bits? If they're random, they convey no information.
 






Assignment #22