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The original ASCII character code, which provides 128 different characters, numbered 0 to 127. ASCII and 7-bit ASCII are synonymous. Since the 8-bit byte is the common storage element, ASCII leaves ...

Poets and novelists turn words into pictures. But on the Internet, the world-spanning computer network, a group of people is taking this idea a bit further. They are ASCII artists, devoted to taking ...

Understanding how to calculate file sizes helps to estimate how much storage is needed to save files such as images, music and documents. ASCII uses 7 bits per character, giving a character set of 128 ...

Everything in a computer is stored as 1s and 0s. A single 1 or a single 0 in a computer is called a 'bit'. If we store a character in a computer it takes eight 1s and 0s, so we might say it takes ...

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