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How is voltage level used to distinguish between binary digits?
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∙ 14y ago
Binary digits are represented in a variety of ways inside a computer. Random access memory (RAM) typically uses a capacitor and a transistor to represent a single bit. To set a bit, the transistor fills the capacitor with an electric charge. To clear a bit, the transistor drains the charge. The transistor can achieve this "switching" extremely quickly.
However, a capacitor cannot hold its charge for long because the transistor "leaks". In order to maintain state, memory must be constantly refreshed at regular intervals. On each refresh, if a capacitor's charge is more than half full, the transistor refills it.
The refresh rate obviously needs to be faster than the leakage rate, however the more time spent refreshing memory (the refresh overhead), the slower that memory will be because the refresh has to be interleaved into the normal memory accesses. In older DRAM, the refresh was as high 10%, but today it is less than 0.5%.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 14y agolower and higher voltage corresponds respectively to the two binary digits 0 and 1.
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Was binary stands for binary digits?
No, binary is a number system.A binary digit is called a bit.
What is the function of the OR gate?
use to control signals in many circuits. it finds the maximum between two binary digits
A string of eight 0s and 1s is called?
Eight binary digits are called a byte.Four binary digits are a nibble.
What is a binary digit?
A synchronous or asynchronous stream of signal consisting only of zero(no voltage) and one(position voltage) is called binary data stream. They may be bytestream, wordstream and so on. Sending unique binary pulses periodically create a binary digital signal. For example, you want to pass the number 346F5A through binary digital signal it will be 001101000110111101011010 Break it 0011-0100-0110-1111-0101-1010 you will find the binary equivalents of each digit. This example is very simple. Usually complex form of data are sent to and fro through data lines, be it the SATA cable of your hard drive, the USB port or the Internet.
How do you represent a negative number in Binary Coded Decimal?
All I know is that when a number is negative, you convert the decimal into binary and if it is negative you put 1111 before the binary digits.
How many digits are in the binary system and what are they?
The binary system uses two digits, zero and one.
A group of 8 binary digits is known as a?
In binary system there are two digits: 0 and 1, or false and true01010101 (8 binary digits or 8 bits) are 1 byte.
What is equal to binary digits?
Binary digits are 'bits'. There are only two of them. It doesn't matter what you call your digits or how you write them, as long as you do all of your binary arithmetic with only two symbols.
What is does binary mean?
Binary means two digits
Was binary stands for binary digits?
No, binary is a number system.A binary digit is called a bit.
Do computers today still use binary code?
The circuits in a modern computer processor are made up of billions of transistors. A transistor is a tiny switch that is activated by the electronic signals it receives. The digits 1 and 0 used in binary reflect the on and off states of a transistor where 0 can be represented by a low voltage and 1 with a high voltage.
Why microprocessor uses the binary number system not the desimal or any other number system?
-There is a speculation of the fact that Humans use base 10 system is because they have 10 fingers. But there is no speculation behind the fact that the computers use binary system. The binary system is used in computers, because 1 and zero represent the two voltage levels of on and off. There are 10 digits in Decimal system: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 There are only 2 digits in Binary system: 0,1 (Binary digits are referred as bits) moaiz123@gmail.com
What is thirteen in Binary?
Thirteen written in binary digits is: o|
How many digits are used in a binary number system and what are they?
There are two digits in the binary number system. 0 and 1
How many digits are there in the binary equivalent of 56?
56 in binary is 111000. Unlike the decimal number system where we use the digits.
What is the difference between binary and decimal?
Decimal has ten different digits - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Binary only has two different digits - 0 1
The binary system of numbers uses which two numberlcal digits?
Binary means base 2 - it uses two digits. Those digits are zero and one.
