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... bits , bytes and words . A bit is the presence or absence of an event which can generate an electric pulse - whether ... bits as either 0 or 1 , no or yes , true or false . Two bits taken together can describe four conditions : 00 01 10 ...
... bits , bytes and words . A bit is the presence or absence of an event which can generate an electric pulse - whether ... bits as either 0 or 1 , no or yes , true or false . Two bits taken together can describe four conditions : 00 01 10 ...
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... bits in a byte are better . If we are not concerned with upper- and lower - case characters - and if our character set or character repertoire need not be extensive a six - bit byte will be ample . We would only need : 26 letters 10 ...
... bits in a byte are better . If we are not concerned with upper- and lower - case characters - and if our character set or character repertoire need not be extensive a six - bit byte will be ample . We would only need : 26 letters 10 ...
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... bit will be added to make it even ( or vice versa if the object is to provide an odd parity check bit ) . Parity Bit Other Bits in Byte 0 0 0 0 0 1 10000 1 1100 10 110011 Without Parity odd even odd 1 0 1 0 even A parity check means ...
... bit will be added to make it even ( or vice versa if the object is to provide an odd parity check bit ) . Parity Bit Other Bits in Byte 0 0 0 0 0 1 10000 1 1100 10 110011 Without Parity odd even odd 1 0 1 0 even A parity check means ...
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