Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero (0) that ...

To represent text in a computer system, we give each character its own special number. This number is called its code. We can then store this code in the computer using binary ones and zeros. ASCII ...

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers and electronic devices. It consists of 128 characters, including: ...