1 Garnet is Connecticut's state mineral. 2  Eubrontes is the state fossil, visit Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill to learn more. 3  The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain. 4  The highest elevation in Connecticut is the slope of Mount Frissel at 2380' (the peak, 2,453' is in MA).
Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. Microsoft software uses Unicode at its core. Whether you realize it or not, you are using Unicode already! Basically, âcomputers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers.
The byte (/ËbaÉªt/) is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size â byte-sizes from 1 to 48 bits are known to have been used in the past.