Question
10. You have stumbled on an unknown civilization while sailing around the world. The people, who call themselves Zebronians, do math using 40 separate characters (probably because there are 40 stripes on a zebra). They would very much like to use computers, but would need a computer to do Zebronian math, which would mean a computer that could represent all 40 characters. You are a computer designer and decide to help them. You decide the best thing is to use BCZ, Binary-Coded Zebronian (which is like BCD except it codes Zebronian, not Decimal). How many bits will you need to represent each character if you want to use the minimum number of bits?
Answer
Given data:
A computer 40 characters need to be represented by BCZ(binary coded Zebronian). Then, need 6bits.
But, 5 bits only give 25= 32 unique characters.
Note that 6 bits would allowv to represent 26= 64 characters.
Therefore, 6 bits will you need to represent each character if you want to use the minimum number of bits.