Question

how many individual bits does it take to write the letter J in binary

Answer 1

In binary, a letter is typically represented using the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) encoding, which uses 7 bits for each character. However, in modern systems, it is common to use 8 bits (1 byte) for ASCII characters to accommodate the additional bit for error checking or other purposes.

The letter "J" is represented in ASCII as the decimal value 74. In binary, this would be represented as:

- Decimal 74 = Binary 01001010

Thus, it takes **8 bits** (1 byte) to represent the letter "J" in binary.