Question

Numbers are stored and transmitted inside a computer in _____________.

• A. Binary form
• B. ASCII code form
• C. Alphabets form
• D. Numerical form

Answer 1

The correct option is B ASCII code form

The ASCII code, American Standard Code of Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic devices.

Every text symbol (letter, punctuation, digit) must have an integer value representing it inside the computer, because the computer only deals with numbers (in binary representation specifically).

So, with a standard representation for each symbol computers around the world can communicate to each other because they are using the same code.

For example - Letter ‘a’ is represented by 97 decimal (which is 01100001 in binary) in the computer (that’s the real ASCII value for it).