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Digital Literacy Computer Basics Computer Basics Binary

Question

The teacher says if 8 digit code number in binary it's equal to 1 byte and the byte is a one of the computer storage units. If we filled it the computer with binary digit codes numbers are we gonna expand the storage that it's on the computer or any Device?.

1 Answer

Raffael Dettling
Raffael Dettling
32,999 Points

The storage still remains the same. By the way a computer only understands binary so the only thing you can do is to write programms with a less memory usage. So at the end he only safes 0 and 1 in his memory.

Thank you very much, Raffael Dettling