Exam 4: The Building Blocks: Binary Numbers, Boolean Logic, and Gates

The two digits, ____, are frequently referred to as bits.

ASCII encodes a total of ____ different characters.

Analog signals must first be digitized to be stored in the computer.

A byte consists of 16 bits.

The True-Color scheme uses ____ bits.

Transistors are constructed from ____, such as silicon and gallium arsenide.

The ____ of a sound wave is a measure of its loudness.

The outputs in the full adder are the sum digit and the new ____ digit.

After we normalize a number, its first significant digit is immediately to the left of the binary point.

A(n) ____ is a circuit that performs binary addition on two unsigned integers.

Today, magnetic cores are the most popular storage technology.

To construct an AND gate, two transistors are connected in parallel.

A ____ is an electronic device that operates on a collection of binary inputs to produce a binary output.

A stark black/white image has greater storage requirements than an image represented using a gray scale.

A(n) ____ is a single point sampled from a photographic image and stored in the digital format.

An arithmetic overflow is an error condition that occurs when an operation in a computer produces a number that exceeds the maximum allowable value.

Sequential circuits contain feedback loops.

The binary-to-decimal algorithm is based on successive divisions by 2.

There is no theoretical reason why one could not build a "decimal" computer, but computers use binary representation because it is more reliable.

UNICODE uses ____ bits to represent each character.