Version 1.0, August 31, 2001, Copyright, Hugh Jack 1993-2001

31.4.2 ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

 

· While numbers are well suited binary, characters don't naturally correspond to numbers. To overcome this a standard set of characters and controls were assigned to numbers. As a result, the letter `A' is readily recognized by most computers world-wide when they see the number 65.