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Computer

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Data Structures

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Data/Variable Types (Statistics/Programming)

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Data/Variable Types - Levels (Base - Flat - Complex)

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Computer Data Encoding & Decoding

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Character Encoding (Character Set - Encoding Scheme)

ASCII

Created on Apr 02, 2019 · Last Modified on Aug 26, 2021

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
  • is the first character encoding scheme (i.e. mapping between: characters ↔ numbers ↔ binary-sequence)
  • only need 7 bits
  • later superseded by Unicode+Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8)

Subpages

  • Carriage Return (CR) - Line Feed (LF) - CRLF - End of Line (EOL)