Assignment #18

Pick a post from our class blog that is at least six months old and interesting to you, and answer the following questions:

1. What is the title of the post you chose
    Freebase -- Wikipedia for structured data
2. What is its permalink URL? (Be sure to make this a clickable, "hot" link).
    http://cis471.blogspot.com/search/label/database
3. What tag(s) does it have?
    Database
4. Why did you choose it?
    Because I am interested in database development

Assignment #24

Assignment #24

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

No, the ISO 8859 standard is not for images.

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

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111

H = 01101000

E = 01100101

l = 01101100

l = 01101100

0 = 0110111

a. How many bits did it take?

40

b. How many bytes did it take?

40/8 =5
c. Would it take more bytes in memory than in storage?

No

3. At 10 bits per second, how long would it take to transmit Hello from one computer to another?
There are 40 bits in hello so it would take 4 seconds

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

Bits do not contain information