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How many address bits are needed to specify each byte in a 512 byte memory unit?

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Step-by-step explanation:

In a 512 byte memory unit, in order to address each byte, there will be 512 locations (each one byte) ranging from 0 to 511.

Thus it will take 9 bits (2^9=512) to store the address within the unit.

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