A debugging utility is used to take the "bugs" out of a program.

More Questions from Number Systems and Codes

• A good example of the use of a digital representation of an analog quantity is the audio recording of music.
• Hex is often used in digital applications as a shorthand way to represent strings of bits.
• The octal number system consists of eight digits, 0 through 7.
• Digital electronics must use a numbering system that has more than ten digits.
• A binary code decimal representation of a binary number will always have more bits than the binary number.
• Each position in a decimal multidigit number will have a weighting factor based on a power of only 10.
• A method of converting decimal to binary is by successive division.
• Hexadecimal is used to encode BCD numbers.
• A computer will use ASCII code to store information internally.
• In even parity, the sum of the individual bits in the code group must be even.

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