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- ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
- This is the de facto worldwide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 8 digit binary number (byte): 00000000 through 01111111.
Related Terms: Binary, Bit (Binary DigIT), Byte