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Can someone help with number three?

View downloads Open folder Open INFORMATION THEORY Part : Use logarithms to measure information in the following problems, 1. If someone asks you to guess a number between 1 and a million and you use the "cut in half strategy, what will your first question be? How many guesses will it take you? Hint: The number of guesses required may remind you of another famous guessing game.] 2. Computer storage and memory is measured in &-bit chunks called bytes computer bit is a switch that is either on or off. When you see a memory dump from a computer, the bits are represented by Os and 1s. You can think of each bit as being the answer to a yes/no question, with 0 standing for no and 1 for yes. How many bits does it take to code one character from a standard co which has 47 alphanumeric keys, each of which can be either unshifted like lowercase u or the number 4) or shifted Gike U or the dollar sign $)? Is this more or less than one byte? 3. How many bits does it take to identify uniquely every person in the United States (the current population is about 300 million)? Investing & The Rule of 72

Answer 1

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