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Lesson (5) Digital Text and Numbers

This document discusses digital text and numbers. It explains that numbers can have value, like those used in math operations, or non-value, like phone numbers. The document also discusses how computers store text, numbers, pictures and sounds using binary and coding systems like ASCII and Unicode. ASCII originally allowed 256 characters but Unicode allows more characters to be stored.

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Lesson (5) Digital Text and Numbers

This document discusses digital text and numbers. It explains that numbers can have value, like those used in math operations, or non-value, like phone numbers. The document also discusses how computers store text, numbers, pictures and sounds using binary and coding systems like ASCII and Unicode. ASCII originally allowed 256 characters but Unicode allows more characters to be stored.

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26/9/2022

1.5 Digital Text and


numbers

Grade 7
What is a number value?
 Numbers that are used in adding subtraction and multiplying.

What is a non-value numbers?


 Phone number, house number, street number.
Activity (Page 22)
Storing value and non-value numbers
 Numbers are stored in computer using binary system.

How computer store the text, pictures, sounds?


 Computer used ASCII code for:
Alphabet
Punctuation
Space .
 The common code used by almost all computers is called ASCII
code .
 When the processor receives the signal it stores the character
using ASCII code.
ASCII code for lower Case
storing other characters

Numbers in ASCII
A Problem in ASCII

 There are only 256 character in ASCII.

 ASCII originally created from English to binary.

Unicode
 Provide code for other characters sets.
1.5Test (page 25)
 Q1: what does 24 look like when it is stored as:
 A value in binary ?
 11000
 B ASCII?
 0011001000110100

 Q2:when you type a character on your keyboard, what data is sent to the
computer?
 The computer stores the ASCII code (or Unicode) for the character.

 Q3:why is ASCII limited to 256 characters?


 Because one byte of data can store any number from 0 to 255

 Q4: what advantages are there to using Unicode instead of ASCII?


 Allows you to store a much greater range of characters and symbols

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