COMPUTER NETWORKING

MULTIMEDIA AND QUALITY OF SERVICE

COMPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How do you calculate the number of bits of a body of text in ASCII?
A
Number of characters * 7
B
Number of characters (including spaces) *7
C
bits in Huffman * 7
D
bits in Huffman / 7
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -7-bit encoding is a reference to the Ascii character set-pronounced “Askey” and standing for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”-which is a mapping of English alphabet characters, numbers and symbols to 7-bit numerical values in the range 0 to 127.

Detailed explanation-2: -ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the bit patterns representable with seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent character information.

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