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U1L07 Activity Guide - Representing Text

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding system originally developed as a 7-bit code allowing 128 characters. It was later extended to 8-bits to include additional printable characters from 32-126 along with common control characters like backspace. The reference sheet shows the 8-bit binary representation and corresponding character for each number from 32 to 126.

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U1L07 Activity Guide - Representing Text

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding system originally developed as a 7-bit code allowing 128 characters. It was later extended to 8-bits to include additional printable characters from 32-126 along with common control characters like backspace. The reference sheet shows the 8-bit binary representation and corresponding character for each number from 32 to 126.

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ASCII Reference Sheet 

What is ASCII? 
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a widely used system for character encoding. It was
originally developed in 1963 as a 7-bit system allowing for 128 characters. Symbols 0-31 and 127 were reserved for
control characters (e.g. “Backspace” or “Delete”) with the numbers 32-126 being used for printable characters. As the 8-bit
“byte” became standardized, ASCII was extended to the 8-bit format you see below.

Num. Bits Char. Num. Bits Char. Num. Bits Char.


32 00100000 Space 64 01000000 @ 96 01100000 `
33 00100001 ! 65 01000001 A 97 01100001 a
34 00100010 " 66 01000010 B 98 01100010 b
35 00100011 # 67 01000011 C 99 01100011 c
36 00100100 $ 68 01000100 D 100 01100100 d
37 00100101 % 69 01000101 E 101 01100101 e
38 00100110 & 70 01000110 F 102 01100110 f
39 00100111 ' 71 01000111 G 103 01100111 g
40 00101000 ( 72 01001000 H 104 01101000 h
41 00101001 ) 73 01001001 I 105 01101001 i
42 00101010 * 74 01001010 J 106 01101010 j
43 00101011 + 75 01001011 K 107 01101011 k
44 00101100 , 76 01001100 L 108 01101100 l
45 00101101 - 77 01001101 M 109 01101101 m
46 00101110 . 78 01001110 N 110 01101110 n
47 00101111 / 79 01001111 O 111 01101111 o
48 00110000 0 80 01010000 P 112 01110000 p
49 00110001 1 81 01010001 Q 113 01110001 q
50 00110010 2 82 01010010 R 114 01110010 r
51 00110011 3 83 01010011 S 115 01110011 s
52 00110100 4 84 01010100 T 116 01110100 t
53 00110101 5 85 01010101 U 117 01110101 u
54 00110110 6 86 01010110 V 118 01110110 v
55 00110111 7 87 01010111 W 119 01110111 w
56 00111000 8 88 01011000 X 120 01111000 x
57 00111001 9 89 01011001 Y 121 01111001 y
58 00111010 : 90 01011010 Z 122 01111010 z
59 00111011 ; 91 01011011 [ 123 01111011 {
60 00111100 < 92 01011100 \ 124 01111100 |
61 00111101 = 93 01011101 ] 125 01111101 }
62 00111110 > 94 01011110 ^ 126 01111110 ~
63 00111111 ? 95 01011111 _

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