CS - Data Rep - ASCII Flashcards

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What does ASCII stand for?

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American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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What is ASCII used to represent and what does it allow computers to do?

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A range of characters, symbols, and control codes used in computing and communication. It allows computers to understand how to represent text.

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What is extended ASCII?

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Version of ASCII that supports the representation of 256 different characters because it uses eight bits to represent a character.

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  • What are control characters and printable characters?
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Control
* Characters used to perform actions, not printable on screen.
e.g. esc, delete, tab.

Printable
* Used to show a character on screen.
e.g. letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks, backspace

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