ASCII basics

GCSE · Computer Science · AQA · CS3.5 — Character encoding: ASCII (7-bit) and Unicode; representing text as a sequence of integer codes; comparing range and storage cost

Question

State (a) the number of bits per character in standard ASCII, and (b) the number of distinct characters it can represent.

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