Re: port forwording question
Don't bother, someone on Quora was lucky to answer this for me.
A bit is simply a storage cell or a position in some sort of a message that can have one of two values, usually referred to as 0 or 1. One bit can have 2 values, two bits can have 4 values, three bits can have 8 values, so the more bits you have, the more values you can represent. The number values a set of N bits can represesnt is 2 to the power N, 2^N. Binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal are just different ways of representing the different values that a set of bits can hold. So
• Binary 00100001
• Octal 041
• Decimal 65
• Hexadecimal 21
all represent exactly the same thing. What that means depends on how we interpret it. It might represent a score of 65 for a player in a game, or the letter ‘A’. A WiFi key is 128 bits that are deliberately chosen at random so that some hacker cannot guess them. You could represent those bits, if you need to, in any of the ways listed (though decimal would be hard). Just having that many bits means that it is impossible to decode messages encrypted with the key by trying every possible value - even with a huge computer it would take ridiculously long. https://www.quora.com/What-are-bits-exa … nformation
_______________________________________________ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
