Question: What is the decimal equivalent of the binary number 11111111?

Answer:

To convert binary to decimal, calculate the sum of (2^n) * (bit value) for each bit position. In this case, it's (2^7 * 1) + (2^6 * 1) + (2^5 * 1) + (2^4 * 1) + (2^3 * 1) + (2^2 * 1) + (2^1 * 1) + (2^0 * 1) = 255.