Assignment 24 Encoding text

1. If you took a picture of your car, could you store that using the ISO 8859-1 character standard? Explain your answer.

No, the ISO 8859-1 character set is used for written plain language. An image file would need to be stored as an image file; .jpg.

2. Write the word Hello using the ISO 8859-1 character standard.

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111

a. How many bits did it take?

40

b. How many bytes did it take?

5

c. Would it take more bytes in memory than in storage?

It would fill the same amount of space.


3. At 10 bits per second, how long would it take to transmit Hello from one computer to another?

4 seconds.


4. Which contains more information 100 random bits or 1,000 random bits? Explain your answer.

Neither, random bits contain no information.