Answers to Data representation Exercise

 

What decimal integer does each of the following bit configurations represent?

What would they represent if they were characters?

 

Bit Configuration

Decimal Integer

Characters

00100111

39

‘ (apostrophe)

01000101

69

E

10101110

174

® (see note below)

00101011

43

+

00110100

52

The character 4

11111111

255

ź (see note below)

 

NOTE: The ASCII coding scheme uses only 7 bits of a byte (0 – 128). The
”extended” ASCII coding scheme use numbers 129 through 255 to represent additional characters but this list is not really standardized so you may find difference between charts.