FC0-U61 · Question #774
Which of the following notational systems uses the most characters to represent the decimal number 10?
The correct answer is D. Binary. Binary notation requires the most characters (bits) to represent the decimal number 10 among the given options because it uses only two symbols (0 and 1) and therefore needs more places to represent larger values.
Question
Which of the following notational systems uses the most characters to represent the decimal number 10?
Options
- AOctal
- BHexadecimal
- CDecimal
- DBinary
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(16 responses)- B6% (1)
- C6% (1)
- D88% (14)
Why each option
Binary notation requires the most characters (bits) to represent the decimal number 10 among the given options because it uses only two symbols (0 and 1) and therefore needs more places to represent larger values.
Octal (base 8) represents decimal 10 as 12 (two characters).
Hexadecimal (base 16) represents decimal 10 as A (one character).
Decimal (base 10) represents decimal 10 as 10 (two characters).
Binary (base 2) uses only two characters (0 and 1). To represent decimal 10, binary uses 1010, which consists of four characters. This is more characters than decimal (10 - two characters), hexadecimal (A - one character), or octal (12 - two characters).
Concept tested: Number systems representation
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