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The most common binary code in use today is the 8 bit ASCII code. What do the letters ASCII stand for?

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American Standard Code for International Interchange
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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American Standard Code for Intelligence Interchange
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American Scientific Code for Information Interchange
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None of the above
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The correct option is A American Standard Code for International Interchange

The most common binary code in use today is the 8 bit ASCII code. What do the letters ASCII stand for American Standard Code for International Interchange.

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s).

ASCII abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.

ASCII is the traditional name for the encoding system; the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the updated name US-ASCII, which clarifies that this system was developed in the US and based on the typographical symbols predominantly in use there.


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