Sometimes integers are encoded by using four-digit binary expansions to represent each decimal digit. this produces the binary coded decimal form of the integer. for instance, 791 is encoded in this way by 011110010001. how many bits are required to represent a number with n decimal digits using this type of encoding

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Efrain Ibarra

31 July, 15:24

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Jeffery Marsh · Answer 1

You're wasting a whole lot of possible 'space' in that encoding solution, but the answer is 4n.