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Question

Howany bits are required to encode all twenty six letters, ten symbols and ten numerals?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 46
Also give explanation

Comments

$6$?

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but what is the explanation of this question

Answer 1

Number of bits required to encode=$\left \lceil log_{2}\,\,26+10+10 \right \rceil=6$

Comments

how it will be,
i think in digital logic, alphabets are represented using ascii values, and also in the question , not mentioned whether alphabets are capital or not.

to represent a alphabets in ascii we need 7 bits