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55The 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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77Convert the decimal number 14 to binary.
8- Answer:
8+ Answer:1110
99
1010Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal:
11- Answer:
11+ Answer:45
1212
1313Which is larger: 1000 or 0111?
14- Answer:
14+ Answer:1000
1515
1616Which is larger: 00100 or 01011?
17- Answer:
17+ Answer:01011
1818
1919What is 10101 + 01010?
20- Answer:
20+ Answer:11111
2121
2222What is 10001 + 10001?
23- Answer:
23+ Answer:100010
2424
2525What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0?
26- Answer:
26+ Answer:15 or 0b1111
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2828How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 255 inclusive?
29- Answer:
29+ Answer:8 bits (255 in base 2 is 0b11111111)
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3131How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 3 inclusive?
32- Answer:
32+ Answer:2 bits (3 in base 2 is 0b11)
3333
3434How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 1000 inclusive?
35- Answer:
35+ Answer:10 bits (1000 in base 2 is 0b1111101000)
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3737How can you test if a binary number is a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)?
38- Answer:
38+ Answer: a binary number is a power of 2 if it has exactly one "1" bit in its representation.
3939
4040Convert the decimal number 14 to hex.
41- Answer:
41+ Answer: E
4242
4343Convert the decimal number 386 to hex.
44- Answer:
44+ Answer:182
4545
4646Convert the hex number 386 to decimal.
47- Answer:
47+ Answer:902
4848
4949Convert the hex number B to decimal.
50- Answer:
50+ Answer:11
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5252If reading the byte 0x21 as a number, what decimal number would it mean?
53- Answer:
53+ Answer:33
5454
5555If reading the byte 0x21 as an ASCII character, what character would it mean?
56- Answer:
56+ Answer:!
5757
5858If reading the byte 0x21 as a greyscale colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
59- Answer:
59+ Answer: Dark shade of gray
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6161If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as an RGB colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
62- Answer:
62+ Answer:(RGB 170, 0, 255) high red, no green, maximum blue.
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6464If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be?
65- Answer:
65+ Answer:170, 0, 255
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