Why does computer represent data as 8 bits or a byte?

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.

Why are computers based on 8?

Octal was an ideal abbreviation of binary for these machines because their word size is divisible by three (each octal digit represents three binary digits). So two, four, eight or twelve digits could concisely display an entire machine word.

Why do we have 6 bit and 8 bit BCD code?

An early six-bit binary code was used for Braille, the reading system for the blind that was developed in the 1820s. Six-bit BCD was used by IBM on early computers such as the IBM 704 in 1954. This encoding was replaced by the 8-bit EBCDIC code when System/360 standardized on 8-bit bytes.

What does 0001 mean in binary?

Bits, Bytes and the Number System:

Decimal	Binary	Hexadecimal
0	0000	0
1	0001	1
2	0010	2
3	0011	3

What is the decimal number for 0110?

110

What does 1000 mean in binary?

1000 in binary is 1111101000. Unlike the decimal number system where we use the digits 0 to 9 to represent a number, in a binary system, we use only 2 digits that are 0 and 1 (bits).

What does the binary code 10110111 stand for?

183. 10110111. One hundred eighty-three. 8-bit numbers: 00001010 10100001 11001111 00011001 00011010 11100100 00110010 00011001 01010100 01111010.

What is the largest number that can be represented with 5 bits?

Binary number representation

Length of bit string (b)	Number of possible values (N)
5	32
6	64
7	128
8	256

What is the largest unsigned number that can be represented?

There are 65,536 different unsigned 16-bit numbers. The smallest unsigned 16-bit number is 0 and the largest is 65535. For example, 0010,0001,1000,01002 or 0x2184 is 8192+256+128+4 or 8580….

Binary bits	Bytes	Alternatives
8	1	256
10		1024
12		4096
16	2	65536