Some written languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, use tens of thousands of different characters. If a language uses 4,096 characters, a computer code for this language would have to use how many bits (1 or 0) per character ?
A)2 bits
B) 12 bits
C) 24 bits
D) 2,048 bits
E) 144 bits

Question

Some written languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, use tens of thousands of different characters. If a language uses 4,096 characters, a computer code for this language would have to use how many bits (1 or 0) per character  ?
A)2 bits
B) 12 bits
C) 24 bits
D) 2,048 bits
E) 144 bits

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

To represent 4,096 different characters, we need to use 12 bits because:
2^12 = 4,096

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