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ASCII

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000065

A character encoding standard for electronic communication, fully named the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It represents text in computers and other devices by assigning a unique number to each character. The original standard uses 7 bits to encode 128 specified characters, including uppercase and lowercase English letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000065
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectTechnical
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CMP-000065",
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  "field": "Computing and IT",
  "definition": "A character encoding standard for electronic communication, fully named the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It represents text in computers and other devices by assigning a unique number to each character. The original standard uses 7 bits to encode 128 specified characters, including uppercase and lowercase English letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols.",
  "subject": "Technical",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/ascii/"
}

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