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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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14 is equals 8 + 4 + 2 + 0
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Answer: 1110
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Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal:
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32 + 0 + 8 + 4 + 0 + 1
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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: 11111
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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: 7
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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
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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: 9
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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: If the number have only one '1' digit at the start and other digits are 0 - the number is a power of two
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Convert the decimal number 14 to hex.
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Answer: F
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Convert the decimal number 386 to hex.
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386 / 16 = 24 reminder 2
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24 / 16 = 1 remider 8
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Answer: 182
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Convert the hex number 386 to decimal.
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3 * 16^2 = 3 * 256 = 768
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8 * 16^1 = 128
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6 * 16^0 = 6
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768 + 128 + 6 = 902
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Answer: 902
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Convert the hex number B to decimal.
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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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Answer: Gray colour with light intensity equals 33
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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: Shade of purple, since this number represent the mix of red an blue colour, without green
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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: 170 , 0, 255

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