Question

In the binary language, each letter of the alphabet, each number, and each special symbol is made up of a unique combination of:________. a. eight bytes.b. eight characters.c. eight bits.d. eight kilo-bytes.

Answer 1

c. 8 bits

Step-by-step explanation:

In binary lingua, especially using ASCII code representation, characters (letters, numbers, special symbols) are represented as a combination of 8 bits. It supports around 127 different characters. i.e
`2^(7)` - 1 = 127.

A bit is the simplest unit of data that a computer understands and it is either a 0 or a 1. In ASCII, 7 or 8 of those can represent a wide range of characters.

For example the character, A, is 65 in ASCII, which is 01000001 in binary

PS: Another system of character representation similar to ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange ) is the Unicode. This is the one in use today as it supports more characters. It uses a 16-bit representation to hold characters.

Hope this helps!