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Encoding Opcodes ( Exercise question )
Am doing the exercises in the first chapter of the book " JAVA PROGRAMMING - From the ground up"
In the short exercises, 7th exercise, the question is "If there are typically 120 different opcodes and each opcode is represented by a string of bits, how many bits are required to uniquely encode or represent each opcode"
To be plain here, i dont understand the question at all..
I assumed the answer is 8 bits since each cell can only hold upto a byte.
Thank you!
Last edited by UniverseCloud; August 8th, 2017 at 06:10 PM.
Re: Encoding Opcodes ( Exercise question )
I think the question is: How many bits does it take to hold a value of 120?
2 bits can hold 4 different values
how many bits for 120 different values?
Its all power of 2.
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