Folder: Numbers with Meanings

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Internet History
Dimensions of images used as buttons that link to websites in the Geocities era.
4294967296

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4294967296 is the total number of possible unique values in 32 bits.
16-bit

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16-bit means that something uses a piece of data that has a length of 16 bits (or 2 bytes in a typical computer).
From 0 to 65535

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Range of numbers we can store in a 16-bit unsigned integer data structure.
65536

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The total number of unique values we can store in 16 bits (or 2 bytes).
8-bit

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8-bit means that something uses a piece of data that has a length of 8 bits (or 1 byte in a typical computer).
256

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256 is the total number of unique values you can store in 8 bits or in 1 byte.
Significant Numbers in Computers

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Learn why numbers like 256, 255, 16, 32, 1024, and 4294967296 have special significance in computers!
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From 0 to 255

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The number 255 is the maximum value that fits in a single byte. One byte has 8 bits of data. Each bit may only have two values: 0 or 1. With 2 bits, there are 4 possible combinations: 00, 01, 10, and 11. With 8 bits, there would be 256 different combinations, or 2 to […]