NIMCET 2011 Question Paper with solutions

Question : 87 of 120

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An eight bit byte is capable of representing how many different characters?

Solution:

We know that, n bit byte can represent

(2)^{n}

different characters.
Hence, 8 bit byte can represent

(2)^{8}=256

characters.

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