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Programming in C · Quiz 1 · 29 Oct 2023 · September 2023 term

Question 6: Suppose you have a document which contains 58 unique char…

Question 6

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Suppose you have a document which contains 58 unique characters. What is the minimum number of bits required to encode a single character in this document?

  1. A

    2⁶

  2. B

    6

  3. C

    2⁷

  4. D

    7

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  • B

    6

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Question 6 of 18 in the IIT Madras BS Programming in C (Programming in C) Quiz 1 paper sat on 29 Oct 2023, in the September 2023 term (IIT M DEGREE AN2 EXAM QPE2 29 Oct 2023). It carries 2 marks.

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