Friday, March 6, 2020

Numbers, ASCII, Unicode (UTF8, UTF16), Big5, RGB

Ways of representing information in computers:

Numbers

ASCII
Unicode ( UTF8, UTF16, [emoji] )
Big5

RGB


Thursday, March 5, 2020

ASCII

ASCII:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange


An N95 Face Mask made by 3M

This is an N95 face mask made by 3M:



"Bit" Means "Binary Digit"

In computer science, a unit of storage is called a "bit," which stands for "binary digit."

Eight bits are called a "byte."


Monday, March 2, 2020

“!” (“Bang”) in Software Programming

The exclamation mark “!” is used to “invert” things in programming languages such as C.

For example, “if x=3” means “if x equals 3”;

                      “if x!=3” means “if x does not equal 3”