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Question about binary i guess
    #8307499 - 04/20/08 10:26 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Are 8 bits a limiting factor for computers today or ever? Or is this something that will always work?

Do you think in our quest to overcome temporary obsticles, we create standards that are limiting and ultimately hard to change in the future?

Just curious, i dont really know anything about this stuff at all...

I was just thinking about midi data, and cant help but think using something like 10 bits would produce 4x as many possible outcomes with only a 25% data increase. I could imagine algorithms for stuff like binary file size/storage, encryption, and compression oresulting in much smaller files not to mention added benefits of data streaming.

come school me, i really want to know.


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Re: Question about binary i guess [Re: tak]
    #8307579 - 04/20/08 11:06 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The grouping of bits in a computer system is fairly arbitrary. In the early days of computing they did use ten bit systems. However, the quickly learned that computers speak binary (base 2), thus the grouping of bits should be a power of 2 (such as 4, 8, 16, 32, etc). Today, most computers use 8-bit groupings as their smallest unit of addressable storage. However, there are exceptions. Many DSP chips use 32-bit (or larger) groupings for their minimum address size.


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