DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS
ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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16
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1
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7
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8
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Detailed explanation-1: -The committee eventually decided on a 7-bit code for ASCII. 7 bits allow for 128 characters. While only American English characters and symbols were chosen for this encoding set, 7 bits meant minimized costs associated with transmitting this data (as opposed to say, 8 bits).
Detailed explanation-2: -ASCII. ASCII was originally developed for basic computers and printers. It uses a 7-bit code to represent characters. As more computers began to work with 8-bit groups of data, ASCII was written as 8 bits.
Detailed explanation-3: -The standard ASCII character set is only 7 bits, and characters are represented as 8-bit bytes with the most significant bit set to 0. Modern computers almost universally use 8-bit bytes, and the extended ASCII character set includes 127 more 8-bit characters, where the most significant bit is set to 1.