SANCHEZ, JORICH LYN E.

GROUP 2

INFORMATION SHEET 3. 2.2

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Within a computer, information is represented and stored in a digital

binary format. The term bit is an abbreviation of binary digit and
represents the smallest piece of data. Humans interpret words and pictures;
computers interpret only patterns of bits. A bit can have only two possible
values, a one digit (1) or a zero digit (0). A bit can be used to represent
the state of something that has two states. For example, a light switch can
be either On or Off; in binary representation, these states would correspond
to 1 and 0, respectively. Computers use binary codes to represent and
interpret letters, numbers and special characters with bits. A commonly used
code is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
With ASCII, each character is represented by a string of bits. For example:
Capital letter: A = 01000001 Number: 9 = 00001001 Special character: # =
00100011 each group of eight bits, such as the representations of letters and
numbers, is known as a byte. Codes can be used to represent almost any
type of information digitally: computer data, graphics, photos, voice, video,
and music.
ALPHABET IN BINARY, CAPITAL LETTERS and LOWER CASE, number
and symbol

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X

01000001
01000010
01000011
01000100
01000101
01000110
01000111
01001000
01001001
01001010
01001011
01001100
01001101
01001110
01001111
01010000
01010001
01010010
01010011
01010100
01010101
01010110
01010111
01011000

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x

01100001
01100010
01100011
01100100
01100101
01100110
01100111
01101000
01101001
01101010
01101011
01101100
01101101
01101110
01101111
01110000
01110001
01110010
01110011
01110100
01110101
01110110
01110111
01111000

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
&
$
%
!
#
*

00000001
00000010
00000011
00000100
00000101
00000110
00000111
00001000
00001001
00001010
00001011
00001100
00001101
00001110
00001111
00100000
00100110
00100110
00100101
00100001
00100011
00101010
Etc

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Y
Z

01011001
01011010

y
z

01111001
01111010

While a bit is the smallest representation of data, the most basic unit of
digital storage is the byte. A byte is 8 bits and is the smallest unit of measure
(UOM) used to represent data storage capacity. When referring to storage
space, we use the terms bytes (B), kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB),
gigabytes (GB), and terabytes (TB).
One kilobyte is a little more than one thousand bytes, specifically
1,024. A megabyte represents more than a million bytes or 1,048,576. A
gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. A terabyte is 1,099,511,627,776. The exact
number is gained by taking 2^n power.

Quantities of bytes
1 bit (binary digit*) = the value of
0 or 1
8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte

Abbreviations

Size in "bytes"

1 kilobyte = 1 k
1 megabyte = 1 MB
1 gigabyte = 1 GB
1 terabyte = 1 TB

1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte

1 petabyte = 1 PB

Kilobyte (KB) = 1,024

Megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576
Gigabyte (GB) = 1,073,741,824
Terabyte (TB) = 1,099,511,627,776
Petabyte (PB) =
1,125,899,906,842,624

1024 terabytes = 1 petabyte

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ACTIVITY SHEET 2.2

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Group Activity:
Decode the special message for you.
01000010
01100101
01110010
01101111
01100001
00101110

01100101
00100000
01101001
01110101
01101100

00100000
01110100
01101110
01110010
01110100

01110011
01101111
01101011
00100000
01101001

01110101
00100000
00100000
01001111
01101110

Write the message here:

Answer Key: Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

EVALUATION SHEET 2.2

01110010
01100100
01111001
01110110
01100101

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Name:_________________________
Section: ___________________

Date: ______________
Score: __________

Self Check
1. How many kilobytes are there in 2 gigabytes?
_________________
2. How many gigabytes are there in 1 terabyte?
_________________
3. Write this word in Binary digits.
COMPUTER

Answer Key:

1. 2048 gigabytes
2. 1024 gigabytes
3. 01000011
01001111
01001101
01010000
01010101
01010100
01000101
01010010