Multiple choice

Complete the following sentence:

The ASCII.........

  1. is a subset of 8-bit EBCDIC

  2. is used only in western countries

  3. is version 11 of the ASC standard

  4. has 128 character, including 32 control characters
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Explanation

ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding with exactly 128 characters (2^7 = 128), including 32 control characters (0-31) for functions like tab and newline, plus 96 printable characters. EBCDIC is an incompatible 8-bit encoding with 256 characters.

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