Re : Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question

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Subject: Re : Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question
From: Hmlacage@aol.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 06:29:40 EDT
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Dans un courrier daté du 30/07/98 10:31:45  , vous avez écrit :

> 
>  so when you say that a byte has two digits, that is the hex ($00-$FF) which
> in
>  binary it is 00000000-11111111.  So you could say that if a byte was in 
> binary
>  that it would have 8 bits (digits)
>  

Well, a bit is not a digit. 
A bit is the elementary brick of all computers. A byte is composed of 8 bits
which can be represented by 8 digits if you use base two ( binary ) and by 2
digits if you use base 16 (hexadecimal)

Mathieu, <hmlacage@aol.com>

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