Computer Science: An Overview (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780133760064
Author: Glenn Brookshear, Dennis Brylow
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 14CRP
If each sector on a magnetic disk contains 1024 bytes, how many sectors are required to store a single page of text (perhaps 50 lines of 100 characters) in a foreign language if each character is represented in two bytes of Unicode?
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Computer Science: An Overview (12th Edition)
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