Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

The standard American code for representing characters with bits is

  1. ASCII

  2. Gigabyte

  3. Semiconductor storage

  4. Binary digits
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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the standard character encoding scheme for representing text characters using bits. It uses 7 bits to represent 128 characters (letters, numbers, symbols, control codes). This was the foundational encoding system for computers before Unicode expanded to support international characters.

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