Ascii Codes Ascii Codes

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Published by Juan Soulie Last update on Oct 9,2009 at ll:lSam UTe

It is a very well-known fact that computers can manage internally only Os (zeros) and 1s (ones). This is true, and by means of sequences of Os and 1s the computer can express any numerical value as its binary translation, which is a very simple mathematical operation (as explained in the paper numerical bases). Nevertheless, there is no such evident way to represent letters and other non-numeric characters with Os and 1s. Therefore, in order to do that, computers use ASCII tables, which are tables or lists that contain all the letters in the roman alphabet plus some additional characters. In these tables each character is always represented by the same order number. For example, the ASCII code for the capital letter "A" is always represented by the order number 65, which is easily representable using Os and 1s in binary: 65 expressed as a binary number is 1000001. The standard ASCII table defines 128 character codes (from 0 to 127), of which, the first 32 are control codes (nonprin a e), and the remaining 96 character codes are representable characters:

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10/30/2009