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Describe the operations of an optical disk drive used to read data from an optical disk, such as a CD or DVD.

Data is stored one a continuous spiraled track around the optical disk, the track is made up of a continuation of lands and pits, where lands will reflect the light focused onto them, and pits will scatte...

Answered by Daniel C. Computing tutor
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Compress the following bit pattern using RLE (Run Length Encoding). 1111 0011 1100 0000

The answer is as follows:
(4,1) (2,0) (4,1) (6,0)

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How can XOR be used in encryption and what type of encryption is this ?

As we know, XOR is a logical operator which can take 2 inputs and process one output. Given that two parties want to exchange this would be very useful. If A has message 1010 which may stand for "hel...

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Write the binary number 11011 in decimal.

Similarly to how the digits in decimal represent values of increasing powers of 10 (the far right digit is the number of units, the next digit to the right is the number of 10s, the next digit along is th...

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Given an unlimited number of light bulbs (that break at a certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulb breaks?

The solution is a binary search algorithm (where you start on floor 50th and move up or down depending if the bulb breaks or not, always picking the middle floor of your option range).

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