Bits quick question?

Not sure I really understand your question but ill respond regardless
You kinda answered it yourself..
2^3 for 8 combos.. thats 3 bits
2^7 = 128, so 7 bits there

you could to 10 bits, first 3 for color, next 7 for numbers.

does this make sense, if not reword your question so I can understand it better.

you have 7 colours and 100 numbers
the number of possible combinations is 700
[math]2^9 < 700 < 2^{10}[/math]
you need 10 bits.

what the fuck is this for btw?

>>7795796
it's for a class I'm taking intro to computer science
and thank you
>>7795792
basically I need to represent a pair made of (COLOUR, NUMBER)
there are 7 colours and 100 numbers (from 1 to 100) how many bits do I need to represent all possible combinations

>>7795800
you can do it both by just counting up to 700, or by using 3 bits for the colour and 7 for the number, as you (and >>7795792) said.
the latter is probably more intuitive, but the former is better if you want to use the leftover address space to store additional information.

>>7795814
Thank you