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Flashcards by Thomas Pires, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Thomas Pires
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| what does ASCII stand for? | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| Why do computers use ASCII? | Its allows computers to be compatible with each other. |
| ASCII | 7 bits: 128 characters Only English. |
| Extended ASCII | 8 bits: 256 characters Only English and special characters (é). |
| Unicode | 16 bits: over 65,000 characters any language. |
| What is a character set? | It is all the characters that are recognized and represented by a computer. |
| How are characters represented in ASCII? | each character is given a unique code. this code is then converted into binary and stored in a byte. |
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