Multiple choice

Which of the following codes uses 7 bits to represent a character?

  1. ASCII

  2. EBCDIC

  3. BCD

  4. GRAY
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Explanation

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) uses 7 bits to represent characters, allowing for 128 unique characters. EBCDIC uses 8 bits (256 characters), BCD uses 4 bits per digit, and Gray code is a binary encoding system.

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