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The goal of these exercises is for you to gain an intuition for binary numbers. Using tools to solve the problems defeats the point.
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Convert the decimal number 14 to binary.
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Answer: 1110
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Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal:
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Answer: 45
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Which is larger: 1000 or 0111?
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Answer: 1000
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Which is larger: 00100 or 01011?
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Answer: 01011
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What is 10101 + 01010?
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Answer: 100000
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What is 10001 + 10001?
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Answer: 100010
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What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0?
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Answer: 15
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How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 255 inclusive?
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Answer: 9 bits
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How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 3 inclusive?
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Answer: 2 bits
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How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 1000 inclusive?
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Answer: 10 bits
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How can you test if a binary number is a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)?
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Answer: n & n-1 == 0
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Convert the decimal number 14 to hex.
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Answer: E
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Convert the decimal number 386 to hex.
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Answer: 11E
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Convert the hex number 386 to decimal.
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Answer: 902
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Convert the hex number B to decimal.Do not use any tools or programming to solve these problems. Work it out yourself by hand, and fill in the answers.
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Do not convert any binary numbers to decimal when solving a question unless the question explicitly tells you to.
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The goal of these exercises is for you to gain an intuition for binary numbers. Using tools to solve the problems defeats the point.
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Convert the decimal number 14 to binary.
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If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be?
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Answer: 11
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If reading the byte 0x21 as a number, what decimal number would it mean?
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Answer: 33
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If reading the byte 0x21 as an ASCII character, what character would it mean?
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Answer: !
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If reading the byte 0x21 as a greyscale colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
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If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as an RGB colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
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Answer: purple but I found the answer on google not from the PDF.
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If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be?
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