COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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Question
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The first stored programs were written in binary. How many bits did each line of code contain?
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4
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8
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16
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32
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -16 binary digits can represent 65, 536 different values when taken as a group. It’s convention that we tend either to use 16 bits to represent the integers from 0–65535, or signed integers from-32768 to +32767.
Detailed explanation-2: -16-bit refers to a certain measurement of units of memory or data, of 16 bits in size. 16-bit technologies are technologies that are built for 16-bit data sets, or with a 16-bit data handling capacity or with 16-bit sized registers.
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