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Computer Science Help! - Calculating File Size

So first step is to guess how many bits per field... thats the tricky part for me.
How would I guess how many bits is in a field...
Example: The Date of Birth, first name, surname

Then obviously you multiply by the number of records.. then you divide by a 1000 to make it into kB if necessary and then add 10% overhead
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Are you doing AS computer Science? Warships?
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Are you doing AS computer Science? Warships?


No idea what warships is... im doing OCR you see... :/

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