Estimating Script Size: 200wpm, 5letter/word, 1Gb/s

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A 1-hour lecture script is stored on the computer hard disk in the ASCII format. Estimate the total number of bits assuming a delivery rate of 200 words per minute and on average 5 letters per word. how long will it take to transmit the script at a bitrate of 1 Gb/s

 

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[Mene]

To estimate the total number of bits in a 1-hour lecture script stored in ASCII format, we first need to calculate the total number of words in the script. Assuming a delivery rate of 200 words per minute, the total number of words in a 1-hour lecture script would be 200 x 60 = 12,000 words.

Next, we need to calculate the average number of letters per word. Assuming an average of 5 letters per word, the total number of letters in the script would be 12,000 x 5 = 60,000 letters.

Since each letter is represented by 8 bits in ASCII format, the total number of bits in the script would be 60,000 x 8 = 480,000 bits.

To transmit the script at a bitrate of 1 Gb/s, or 1,000,000,000 bits per second, it would take 480,000 bits / 1,000,000,000 bits per second = 0.00048 seconds.

Therefore, it would take approximately 0.00048 seconds to transmit a 1-hour lecture script at a bitrate of 1 Gb/s. This highlights the significant advancements in data transmission technology, allowing for large amounts of information to be transmitted quickly and efficiently.