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

(1 point)
Responses

four

seven

one

10

1 answer

To represent the letter "J" in binary, we typically use the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) encoding. In ASCII, the letter "J" corresponds to the decimal value 74.

In binary, the decimal number 74 is represented as:

1001010

This is a 7-bit representation. Therefore, the correct response is:

seven