Leaving Cert Notes

Notes and Anki Decks for the Leaving Cert

Binary

Binary is the original way people program

Data is stored in 1 and 0’s (on/off) (base 2)

It is a series of 1’s and 0’s (on and off)

It is read from Right to Left (RTL)

Game to learn and practise binary

Digital Data Measurements

Unit How big is it?
1 bit One binary unit (1/0)
1 nibble 4 bits
1 byte 8 bits
1 kilobyte (KB) 1024 bytes (2^10)
1 megabyte (MB) 1024 kilobytes (2^20)
1 gigabyte (GB) 1024 megabytes (2^30)
1 terabyte (TB) 1024 gigabytes (2^40)
1 petabyte (PB) 1024 terabytes (2^50)