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Tse Kuan William Hsieh - U1L05 Activity Guide - Flippy Do PT 1 - Unit 1 Lesson 4
Tse Kuan William Hsieh - U1L05 Activity Guide - Flippy Do PT 1 - Unit 1 Lesson 4
Tse Kuan William Hsieh - U1L05 Activity Guide - Flippy Do PT 1 - Unit 1 Lesson 4
Directions
Using your Flippy Do or the binary odometer widget fill in the following charts and answer the following questions.
0000 0 1000 8
0001 1 1001 9
0010 2 1010 10
0011 3 1011 11
0100 4 1100 12
0101 5 1101 13
0110 6 1110 14
0111 7 1111 15
What do you notice when you compare the odd numbers with the even numbers? What might
explain this?
We notice that if the last digit of a number is one then the decimal number is
binary, but when it is zero, the number is even. This explains that the decimal
number one ends in one for binary numbers.
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0000 1000 8 1000 0000 128
What do you notice about the decimal equivalents above?
Conversion Practice!
Using your own binary skills fill in the decimal and binary equivalents below.
100 5
101 17
1101 63
0001 1111 64
0010 0000 127
1010 1010 256*
1111 1111 513*
NOTE: a short binary number like 101 is assumed *NOTE: 256 and 513 exceed the capacity of
to have leading 0s for all the other bits, like: the flippy-do but you can work it logically
00000101. Typically large binary numbers are following what you know about patterns with
grouped in 4-bit chunks to improve readability, for binary numbers.
example: 0110 0101 1010
Questions:
1. When you add a zero to the right of a decimal number, it multiplies its value by 10
(For example, “15” becomes “150”). What similar result happens to the value of a
binary number when you add a zero on the right? (For example, “11” would become
“110”).
2. Do the binary numbers “0011” and “000011” have the same value or different values?
Explain
3. Would two bits be enough to assign a unique binary number to each vowel in the
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English language? Explain
4. How many bits would you need if you wanted to count up to the decimal number 1000?