A good answer might be:

The 800 MHz processor, since it checks values 800 million times per second (twice as many as the 400 MHz processor).

(However, if the processors are different types there are other factors besides clock speed that determine how much each processor can do in a second.)

Recall that last advantage of binary:

• Anything that can be represented with patterns can be represented with patterns of bits.

Since data of all kinds is stored in computer memory (main and secondary) using the same electronic methods, this means that endless perfect copies can be made of any type of data or program.

This idea is that any system of symbols can be translated into bit patterns. An example is how English characters have been translated into eight-bit patterns called ASCII. (You will learn more about this later.)

Japanese and Chinese characters, also, have been translated into bit patterns, and computers can manipulate those symbols just as easily as ASCII. Say that a new Chinese character is invented. How can it be represented? Easy: find a bit pattern not yet used to represent any symbol and assign the new character to that pattern.

The correspondence between human language symbols and bit patterns is arbitrary. All you have to do is be sure that you are using enough bits so that all the symbols of the language have a unique bit pattern to represent them.

QUESTION 10:

Can printed music be represented using binary?