Most babies are born vaginally, but you and your doctor might decide that a cesarean section would be best for you and your baby. Some planned cesarean sections are scheduled in advance. Or, your doctor might ask you to wait until you have signs of labor before coming to the hospital.
A bit of information is either a yes or a no ... on or off ... 0 or 1. You really canât compute or demonstrate. much with just one bit of information. So letâs look at the next biggest grouping of information. A Nibble is made of 4 bits. Letâs figure out how many pieces of information you could show with a. Nibble.
Bits and Bytes. Each binary digit is called a bit. Use the table above to see how many bits it takes to represent 3,897. Go ahead, we'll wait. That's right, twelve bits. The right-most bit (the one bit) is the least significant bit and the left-most bit (the two-thousand forty-eight bit) is the most significant bit. Since it is easy to lose your place when reading a long string of 0's and 1's, binary numbers are often displayed in 4-bit groups, like this: 1111 0011 1001. Two of these 4-bit groups (eight bits altogether) make a byte, which is the basic unit for measuring the size of a digital memory or storage device. What can you store in one byte? Think about how many different numbers can be encoded with one byte. (It may help to make an analogy with decimal numbers first: how many different numbers can you encode with 2 digits? how many with 3 digits?)