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| Jul 6, 2023 at 10:35 | comment | added | csstudent1418 | @AustinHemmelgarn Still each character is 8 Bit long in memory. It would be a little awkward, given common circuitry in your CPU and RAM, to store data that takes up specifically only 7 Bits instead of 8. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 19:39 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | Nitpick: ASCII is actually a 7-bit standard, so strictly speaking each ASCII character is not 1 byte long, and for that matter essentially nothing is using true ASCII anymore (in the Western world it’s usually either Unicode or an ISO 8859 derivative, while in East Asia it’s usually one of Unicode, GB 18030, Shift-JIS, or Big5). | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | JimmyJames | +1 For actually answering the question without delving into number theory etc. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 13:12 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | If you only want to represent the number 65535, then you need 0 bits, since you are not actually encoding any information. You know that the value is 65535. If you only want to represent the numbers 65535 and 42 then you need 1 bit. Only if you want to represent all the numbers from 0 to 65535, you need 16 bits. Which still doesn't tell you how many bytes you need, because the size of a byte depends on the architecture. Historically, a byte has been 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, and 18 bits, but even today, there are still modern architectures with 1, 12, 16, 24, and 32 bit bytes. | |
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| S Aug 30, 2021 at 9:04 | history | answered | csstudent1418 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |