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ascii

Meanings
  • noun

    A set of coding standards for representing text using 128 distinct symbols, including letters, digits, and various special characters.

Pronunciation
  1. /ˈæski/



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Variants
List of all variants of ascii that leads to same result
ASCII , ASCIIs
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Derived from the name of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, established in 1963.

Trivia
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  1. ASCII was originally designed to represent English text only.

  2. The first character in ASCII is the 'ASCII NUL' (NULL) character, represented by the code 0.

  3. The last printable character in ASCII is the 'ASCII DELETE' character, represented by the code 127.

Related Concepts
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  1. Unicode: A more extensive character encoding standard that supports over 100,000 characters from various scripts, including ASCII.

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ASCII was a significant milestone in the development of computer technology, enabling the exchange of text-based data between different systems.

How to Memorize "ascii"

  1. visualize

    - Imagine a grid of 128 boxes, each containing a unique symbol.
    - Visualize the process of converting text into binary code and back to its corresponding ASCII symbol.

  2. associate

    - Associate ASCII with the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
    - Connect ASCII with the early days of computer technology and text-based communication.

  3. mnemonics

    - Use the acronym 'Apple And Bananas Split Carefully Into Individual Elements' to remember the order of the first 32 ASCII characters.

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