How many bits must be flipped (i. e. changed from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0) in order to capitalize a lowercase 'a' that's represented in ascii?

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Maddison

11 May, 13:21

How many bits must be flipped (i. e. changed from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0) in order to capitalize a lowercase 'a' that's represented in ascii?

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Janiyah Craig · Answer 1

Lowercase a is decimal 97; upper case is decimal 65

It's easier to think of them in octal, however: a = octal 141, and A is octal 101

octal to binary is easy, each digit is three bits.

141 = 001 100 001

101 = 001 000 001

So, how many bits are changed above?