Changing Bits

A video viewing Website previously used 32-bit integers to store the number of views for each video, but a video that had been watched billions of times hit the maximum value. What is it called when this maximum is exceeded?

An overflow error

A byte is made up of 8 bits (binary digits). You have a programming language that uses one byte to represent characters and are now modifying your language to use two bytes to represent characters. How many more characters can you represent in your new programming language?

2^8 times as many characters

IPv4 represents internet addresses with 32 bits, and the newer protocol IPv6 represents them with 128 bits. Which describes best how many addresses can be represented with IPv6 compared to IPv4?

2^96 times as many addresses can be used

How many more values can be represented by one hexadecimal digit than one binary digit?

8 times as many values

You are currently using a certain number of bits, n, to store values. Suppose you increase the number of bits you are using to store values by one. How many more values can you now represent?

Two times the number of values