Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Bohol

GRADE 9/11 – TVE/TLE (Computer System Servicing)

SECOND QUARTER
LEARNING ACTIVITY NO. 5

Type of Activity: Concept Notes/Skills

Activity Title: Conversions and

calculations
Learning Competency: Obtain accurate measurements for
job
(TLE_IACSS9-12PMC-IIb-d-11)

Learning Target: To obtain accurate measurements for job

References:

CONCEPT NOTES
Obtain accurate measurements for job

Within a computer, information is represented and stored in a digital binary format. The term
bit is an abbreviation of binary digit and represents the smallest piece of data. Humans interpret
words and pictures; computers interpret only patterns of bits. A bit can have only two possible values,
a one digit (1) or a zero digit (0). A bit can be used to represent the state of something that has two
states. For example, a light switch can be either On or Off; in binary representation, these states
would correspond to 1 and 0, respectively. Computers use binary codes to represent and interpret
letters, numbers and special characters with bits. A commonly used code is the American Standard
Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). With ASCII, each character is represented by a string of
bits. For example: Capital letter: A = 01000001 Number: 9 = 00001001 Special character: # =
00100011 each group of eight bits, such as the representations of letters and numbers, is known as a
byte. Codes can be used to represent almost any type of information digitally: computer data,
graphics, photos, voice, video, and music.
ALPHABET IN BINARY, CAPITAL LETTERS and LOWER CASE, number and symbol
A 01000001 a 01100001 1 00000001
B 01000010 b 01100010 2 00000010
C 01000011 c 01100011 3 00000011
D 01000100 d 01100100 4 00000100
E 01000101 e 01100101 5 00000101
F 01000110 f 01100110 6 00000110
G 01000111 g 01100111 7 00000111
H 01001000 h 01101000 8 00001000
I 01001001 i 01101001 9 00001001
J 01001010 j 01101010 10 00001010
K 01001011 k 01101011 11 00001011
L 01001100 l 01101100 12 00001100
M 01001101 m 01101101 13 00001101
N 01001110 n 01101110 14 00001110
O 01001111 o 01101111 15 00001111
P 01010000 p 01110000 00100000
Q 01010001 q 01110001 & 00100110
R 01010010 r 01110010 $ 00100110
S 01010011 s 01110011 % 00100101
T 01010100 t 01110100 ! 00100001
U 01010101 u 01110101 # 00100011
V 01010110 v 01110110 * 00101010
W 01010111 w 01110111
X 01011000 x 01111000 Etc……
 Y 01011001 y 01111001
Z 01011010 z 01111010

While a bit is the smallest representation of data, the most basic unit of digital storage is the
byte. A byte is 8 bits and is the smallest unit of measure (UOM) used to represent data storage
capacity. When referring to storage space, we use the terms bytes (B), kilobytes (KB), megabytes
(MB), gigabytes (GB), and terabytes (TB).

Group Activity:

Decode the special message for you.

01000010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110100

01101111 00100000 01100100 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01111001
01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100001 01101100 01110100
01101001 01101110 01100101 00101110

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