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ASCII
• American Standard Code for Information
Interchange (ASCII)
• Numerical representation of a characterists
(example a,@,z )
•Note that ASCII are designed so that the order of the letters is such that a simple numerical sort on the codes can be used within the computer to
perform alphabetization.
•The order of codes in the representation table is known as its collating sequence. 17
•There are two classes of codes:
