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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

A widely used character encoding system first used in 1963. It uses a 7 bit code to represent characters with numbers (0 to 127), there are also ASCII extensions in use which utilise 8 bit codes to represent international characters in addition to the standard ASCII scheme.
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