August 2024
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), originally used a 7-bit binary code to represent letters, numbers and other characters. Each character is assigned a binary number between 0 to 127. For example:
Capital A is 010000012 (6510)
Lowercase A is 011000012 (9710)
000-31 is reserved for control characters such as end of line, carriage returns, end of text and so on.
032-126 covers symbols, numbers 0-9, and all lowercase and uppercase letters.
The ASCII code set was later extended to 8-bit which allowed more characters to be encoded. These included mathematical symbols, international characters and other special characters needed.
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