AS/A Computer Science: Data Representation Home

This section does not repeat the content from GCSE but you are also required to know the following in this unit: Number bases - binary, decimal and hexadecimal; Bits and bytes; Unsigned binary addition; Characters and character sets; Representing sound; Representing images; Lossy and lossless encryption; run length encoding

This content can be found in the GCSE course if you need to look at it.

Topics

Number systems and Units
Unsigned binary multiplication
Signed binary - two's compliment
Fixed point binary
Floating point binary
Absolute and relative errors
Range and precision
Normalisation of floating point numbers
Error checking
Vector graphics
Nyquist theorem and MIDI
Ceaser and vernam ciphers
Dictionary based compression
Data representation test

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