A 16-character alphabet was used to write the message. The entire message contains 512 characters. How many kilobytes is the message?

univerkov | December 3, 2020 | education

4 bits can encode 6 characters: 16 = 2 ^ 4
Hence 1 character = 4 bits
In this case, 512 characters = 4 bits * 512 = 2048 bits = 2048/8 bytes = 256 bytes

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