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Why do computers use binary to represent all forms of data?

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  • Any form of data needs to be converted to binary to be processed by a computer
  • Data is stored using 1’s and 0’s
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Describe how bits are represented on a HDD:

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  • a platter contains billions of tiny magnetic grains.
  • each grain independently magnetized (to store a 1) or demagnetized (to store a 0)
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Describe how bits are represented on an optical disk e.g. CD/DVD/BluRay

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Pits and lands used to represent 1 or 0 on the surface of a CD

A laser shines onto the surface of the disc and the reflection is measured

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What is denary?

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Denary is the standard number system used around the world

Denary is known as base 10 because there are ten choices of digits between 0 and 9

Each digit has a place value (powers of 10)

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What is binary?

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Binary is a number system used in computing

Binary is known as base 2 because there are 2 choices of digits , 0 and 1

Each digit has a place value (powers of 2)

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Explain the difference between the binary and denary number systems

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  • Binary base 2 system
    • Denary base 10 system
  • Binary has 2 digits (0 and 1)
    • Denary has 10 digits (0-9)
  • Binary place values are powers of 2
    • Denary place values are powers of 10
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What are the binary place values for a byte?

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128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

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Convert the 8 bit binary number 10011011 into denary

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155

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Convert the following binary numbers into denary

00011101

00100101

01010101

10010100

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00011101 = 29

00100101 = 37

01010101 = 85

10010100 = 148

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Convert the denary value 156 into binary

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10011100

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Convert the following denary numbers into 8 bit binary

96

72

161

74

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96 = 01100000

72 = 01001000

161 = 10100001

74 = 01001010

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What is the largest value that can be stored in 8 bits?

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255 (128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1)

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What is the largest value that can be stored in 10 bits?

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1023 (512 + 256 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1)

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How many bits in a byte?

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8

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How many bits in a nibble?

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4

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How many nibbles in 4 bytes?

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8

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What is hexadecimal?

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  • Base 16 number system
  • 16 choices of digits (0-9, A-F)
  • Place values are powers of 16
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What are the place values for the hexadecimal value A7F3?

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  • 4096 256 16 1
  • A 7 F 3
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What is the denary value of the hex digit A?

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10

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What is the denary value of the hex digit E?

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14

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What is the denary value of the hex digit 7?

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7

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Convert the hex value AAA to Denary

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2730

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Convert the following hex values to denary

  • 1F
  • 42
  • CC
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  • 1F = 31
  • 42 = 66
  • CC = 204
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Convert the hex value CA to Binary

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11001010

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Convert the following hexadecimal values to binary * B3 * 5A * B0F
* B3 = 1011 0011 * 5A = 0101 1010 * B0F = 1011 0000 1111
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Convert the binary value 1111 1010 to hexadecimal
FA
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Convert the following binary values to hexadecimal * 1011 1101 * 1010 0110 * 1111 1010 1100 1110
* 1011 1101 = BD * 1010 0110 = A6 * 1111 1010 1100 1110 = FACE
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Convert the hex value AB to Denary
171
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Convert the denary value 166 to hexadecimal
A6
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Convert the following denary values to hexadecimal * 22 * 42 * 170
* 22 = 16 * 42 = 2A * 170 = AA
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Why do we use hexadecimal?
* Easier for programmers to read and understand * Conversion to binary easier than denary to binary * Takes up less space when displayed or printed * Faster than binary for entering numbers
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Where is Hexadecimal used?
* HTML colour codes e.g. red = #FF0000 * Display MAC (Media Access Control) addresses e.g. 01-23-45-67-89-AB-CD * Display ASCII or Unicode values e.g. %41 = 65 = A * Display error codes e.g. error #404 page not found * Display memory dumps e.g. 5F 3A 09 F1
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What is a character set?
A character set is a complete set of the characters and their character codes that can be recognised by a computer system.
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What is character code?
A value/binary number that represents a character
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What is ASCII?
* American Standard Code for Information Interchange. * It is a code for representing 128 English characters as numbers * Each character is assigned a number from 0 to 127
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How many bits does ASCII use?
7 bits
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How many characters can be represented using ASCII?
* Uses 7 bits so ... * 000 0000 to 111 1111 = 0 to 127 = 128 unique characters (2^7)
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How many bits does extended ASCII use?
8
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How many characters can be represented using extended ASCII?
* 0000 0000 to 1111 1111 = 0 to 255 = 256 unique characters (2^8)
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How many bits does Unicode use?
16
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How many characters can be represented using Unicode?
* Uses 16 bits so ... 65536 unique characters (2^16)
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Describe the difference between ASCII and Unicode
* ASCII uses 7 (or 8 bits) and can represent 128 (or 256 characters) * Unicode uses 16 bits and can represent 2^16 characters.
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Describe one advantage of Unicode
Can represent a wider range of characters and therefore more languages than ASCII
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Describe one disadvantage of Unicode
Each character uses more memory space than ASCII
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Describe what is meant by a character set
* All the characters and symbols that can be represented by a computer system. * Each character and symbol is assigned a unique value.
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What is a bitmap image?
A collection of pixels where each pixel is assigned a value that represents it’s colour.
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What is a pixel?
Short for picture element The smallest block of colour in an image
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What is colour/bit depth?
The number of bits used to represent the colour of a single pixel
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How many colours can be stored using 1-bit?
2 There are 2 possible values - 0 or 1
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How many colours can be stored using 2-bits?
4 There are 4 possible values (00, 01, 10, 11)
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How many colours can be stored using 4-bits?
16 Range of possible value is 0000 - 1111 = 0 - 15
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For n bits you can store 2^n different colour codes. How many colours can be stored using 12 bits?
4096 (2^12)
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What is image resolution?
The number of pixels in the image e.g. 600 px x 400 px = 240 000 px
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How do you calculate the size of an image?
image size = number of pixels x colour depth
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If a 12-bit colour depth is used and the image size is 800 x 600 pixels, what is the minimum file size for the image in bytes?
Number of pixels = 800 x 600 Number of bits per pixel = 12 Total number of bits = 12 x 800 x 600 = 5760000 Number of bytes = 5760000 ÷ 8 = 720000 bytes
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What is meant by image metadata?
Image files usually also contain metadata . Metadata means 'data about data' It provides additional information about the image. Computers needs this data to interpret the file
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Give 3 examples of image metadata
file format - eg JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG resolution colour depth time/date the image was taken camera settings GPS data
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Explain how captured camera images are converted to digital photo files
Image is turned into pixels Pixels form a grid Each pixel is give a binary value Each pixel is given a colour Pixels are stored in the correct sequence Meta data is also stored about the image e.g. dimensions/resolution/colour depth Different file formats are used e.g. JPEG
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What happens when you increase the colour depth of an image?
The quality of the image increases You are more accurately able to represent the range of colours Also increases the memory size of the image
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What happens when you increase the number of pixels in an image?
The density of pixels in the same sized area increases More pixels per inch, improving sharpness Can enlarge without visible loss of quality Increases the memory size of the image

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