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Nathan Aular

April 23
rd
, 2014

ASCII
1. What is a bit?
A bit is the smallest unit of data representation. Bits are rarely seen alone in computers
2. How many bits in a byte?
There are 8 bits in a byte
3. What does ASCII stand for?
American Standard Computer Information Interchange
4. Decode the following message (Use the table, not an online converter):
82 101 108 101 97 115 101 32 116 104 101 32 75 114 111 101 107 101 110
R e l e a s e t h e K r o e k e n
5. Explain why there are no values over 127 in the code above.
(hint: refer to your notes; look for another ASCII chart on the Internet to find out what these values represent)
Because the 127 value represents DELETE
6. Encode your first and last name using both:
a) ASCII decimal values only
78 97 116 104 97 110
65 117 108 97 114
b) binary numbers only (i.e. bytes)
1001110 1100001 1110100 1101000 1100001 1001110
1000001 1110101 1101100 1100001 1110010



7. What other characters require ASCII codes besides letters?
Control codes and punctuation
8. State the ASCII code for these characters ^, &, ", and +.
94, 38, 34, 43
9. Go to a website like http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/ and create some ASCII
art! Paste it below (delete this one, and insert your own):

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