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Digital Literacy Computer Basics Computer Languages Fundamentals of Computer Languages

Posted by Luz Maria Valencia Bocanegra
Luz Maria Valencia Bocanegra
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Does Machine code has a much smaller memory footprint? why

I cant anderstand why I had question number 2 wrong

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because machine code uses combination of just two characters/number 0 and 1 (binary code) while developers use all sorts of commands.

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Isaiah Boutz
Isaiah Boutz
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Isaiah Boutz
Isaiah Boutz
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In machine code, there is no converting commands to something the computer can work with. You just give the computer exactly what it needs. With higher level languages, the computer has to convert the commands to machine code, which requires extra memory.