Understanding ASCII and Other Forms of Data

Using the ASCII table

If we give each letter of the English alphabet a numerical value, we could represent text with numbers. We could, for example, say that A = 1, B = 2, and so on. The computer does not use these values for the letters, but instead, it can either use something that is called the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) table (pronounced as-key) or another representation that is called ...