The biggest number you can make with a byte is 255, which in binary is 11111111, because it’s 128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1. You can also represent more complex information with bytes than you can with bits.

Time to Play the ASCII Binary Code Puzzle Game Playing the game will require two people, for simplicity I’m going to call them teacher and student. The teacher should choose a word, then find the ...

Different computer manufactures would use different encoding schemes which made communication extremely difficult. So the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) set out to develop a common ...

Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

ASCII code allows computers to understand how to represent text. In ASCII, each character (letter, number, symbol or control character) is represented by a binary value.

The original ASCII character code, which provides 128 different characters, numbered 0 to 127. ASCII and 7-bit ASCII are synonymous. Since the 8-bit byte is the common storage element, ASCII ...