onnetz opened this issue on Nov 26, 2007 · 46 posts
Keith posted Tue, 27 November 2007 at 9:12 PM
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to the computer 1024 is just a number.. the same as 3 or 7.
Not quite. Using a decimal (or similar system), there's no difference between 3 and 7 (other than their value). Each represents a single character. That's not true in binary, where 3 needs two bits to define it (11) and 7 needs 3 (111).