ASCII
Also known as:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange,
“askee”
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ASCII is simply a mapping between the range of numbers from 0 to 127 to various language symbols like “A”, “B”, “a”, “?”, and “&”. When a computer stores text, it only has to store the number for each letter or other character. When the time comes to display the text to a user, the computer shows the appropriate symbol matching the ASCII number or ASCII code. ASCII is used on a vast majority of computer systems worldwide.
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