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American Code for Information Interchange - Explained

What is the American Code for Information Interchange?

Written by Jason Gordon

Updated at March 11th, 2022

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What is the American Code For Information Interchange?How is the American Code For Information Interchange Used?

What is the American Code For Information Interchange?

The American Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a standard code for transmitting data for the purpose of electronic communication. The ASCII is a code that represents all the English characters such as letters, numbers, and symbols. 

The ASCII represents all the English characters as numbers, with the number ranging from 1to 127. There are two types of ASCII, these are the Standard Code and the Extended Code. The ASCII standard code uses a 7-bit code while the extended code uses an 8-bit encoding method.

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How is the American Code For Information Interchange Used?

As a standard code for data transmission and electronic communication, the ASCII is used widely for legacy data. The X3 committee, an arm of the American Standards Association (ASA) was the first to develop the ASCII in 1963 and about ten revisions of the standard codes were done between 1967 and 1986. The ASCII codes were binary systems used by the traditional brokers and traders for many years. However, in recent times, the ASCII has been overthrown by other Unicode used for computer systems in the world we are today.

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