Encoding text

This assignment illustrates the encoding of text information.

Post the answers to the following questions on your blog and print a copy of the blog post to turn in.

1. If you took a picture of your car, could you store that using the ISO 8859-1 character standard? Explain your answer.

2. Write the word Hello using the ISO 8859-1 character standard.

a. How many bits did it take?
b. How many bytes did it take?
c. Would it take more bytes in memory than in storage?

3. At 10 bits per second, how long would it take to transmit Hello from one computer to another?

4. Which contains more information 100 random bits or 1,000 random bits? Explain your answer.

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Image characteristics

Here are links to two pictures of Lucas:

• Lucas1
  
• Lucas2
  

One was taken with my camera set at high quality, the other with my camera set at low quality.

1. Which one was taken at high quality?
2. What is the size in pixels of the high quality image?
3. What is the size in pixels of the low quality image?
4. How many pixels in Lucas1?
5. What image format do these images use?
6. What is the aspect ratio of Lucas1?
7. What is the aspect ratio of Lucas2?
8. Which image has the most information? (explain)
9. Which image has the highest resolution? (explain)