How many bits does it take to represent the values from 0 to 255?
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Why? Because 8 bits can represent 2^8 (2 raised to the power of 8) different values, which is equal to 256. However, we start counting from 0, so the range of values we need to represent is from 0 to 255, which is a total of 256 values. Show more…
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