Interpreting Character Codes (ASCII)

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The computer saves character data as codes. These codes are necessarily in binary. The resultant codes would look likenumbers, but the computer knows that the data positions of these binary codes are really representing text characters and not numbers. The common coding method for a PC or MAC computer is ASCII.

Some Important Codes in ASCII

The numbers as ASCII code means these codes are for representing numbers as text both for presenting the text on the screen or printing the text from a printer. You can use number (by incrementing or decrementing) with these codes to alter the particular number used as a character, but it is not advisable to use these numbers in arithmetic.

See also: The Animated Computer

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