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Exercise

1 Imagine a world without number systems, what problems would be encountered?

2 Why do you think the binary number system is preferred for use in computers rather than the decimal
number system?

3 In small computers systems such as deskt o p s , laptops and others, octal decimal or hexadecimal
numbers of systems are preferred rather than binary. Explain two reasons why?

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