How much information is needed to encode each of the 256 characters in the alphabet?
| December 12, 2020 | education
In order to find out how many bits are allocated for one character, you just need to find what power of two is a number that means the number of characters in the alphabet.
256 = 2 ^ 8
Answer: 8
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