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    Year 8 – Representations: from clay to silicon Learner worksheet

    Lesson 5 – Large quantities

    Bits and bytes


    Problem 1 Simple
    A user comes across a small text file in her hard disk. The name of the file is
    ‘simple’ and its size is 12 bytes.

    Name Size Type

    simple 12 bytes Text

    Question Your answer ▿

    How many binary digits (bits) Number of bits in the file:


    does this file contain?

    Problem 2 Symbols
    The table below contains examples of a few symbols, and their binary encodings
    in the UTF-8 coding scheme.

    Fill in the last column of the table: how many bytes are required for each of the
    characters?

    Binary Number of bytes


    Character Number of bits
    Representation ▿

    @ 01000000 8

    11000010
    £ 10100011
    16

    11100010
    ⁂ 10000001 24
    10000010

    11110000
    10011101
    𝄞 10000100
    32
    10011110

    Problem 3 ASCII art


    ASCII art involves creating pictures using characters (such as letters, symbols,
    and numbers). Here is an example:

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    Year 8 – Representations: from clay to silicon Learner worksheet
    Lesson 5 – Large quantities

    ! |\_/| !
    ! -(@ @)- !
    !--oOO--(_)-OOo---!

    Questions Your answers ▿

    Every character is represented Bytes for each character:


    by a sequence of 8 bits.

    How many bytes are required


    for one individual character in
    the image?

    In this image, there are 3 lines, Total number of characters in the image:
    with 20 characters in each line.
    This includes spaces and the
    special characters that move to the
    next line.

    How many characters are in the


    image in total?

    How many bits are required for Bits for the entire image:
    representing the entire image?

    How many bytes are required Bytes for the entire image:
    for representing the entire
    image?

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