Nov 8- ASCII and Binary

Binary is:

• a system using the digits 0 and 1 to represent a letter, digit, or other character in a computer or other electronic device.
• the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet

ASCII is:

• a numerical system that has 2 rather than 10 as a base.
• the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet

True or False: In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s).

• True
• False

True or False: The binary number for a capital 'A' is the same as the binary number for a lower-case 'a'?

• True
• False

What is the maximum number of values that can be represented in 7 bits?

• 127
• 256
• 65,536
• 128