Computer Science Illuminated
Computer Science Illuminated
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Author: Nell Dale, John Lewis
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Chapter 11, Problem 1E
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The given statement “a group of 8 or 16 bits of binary data in a text file has been read as characters” is “True”.

Hence, the correct answer is option “A”.

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File:

A group of interrelated data is called as file. The two main types of files are text file and binary file.

  • Text file:
    • A text file simply contains the information or data which is in human readable format.
    • It can be stored with the extension “.txt”.
  • Binary file:
    • A binary file contains the data in bits format. Bits can be represented in the form of 0’s and 1’s.
    • It can be stored with the extension “.bin”.
  • Even though the text file contains plain text, the computer stores the text file information as binary data.
  • Because the computer understands only the machine-level language (0’s and 1’s). The information in the text file is converted into machine-level language in the form of 0’s and 1’s.
  • Then, these bits can be grouped into 8 or 16 bits from the text file and then interpreted as characters.

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