Characters (Edexcel GCSE Computer Science): Flashcards

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ASCII acronym meaning

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Number of bits in ASCII code

7 bits

Total characters ASCII can represent

128 (27=1282^7 = 128)

Character set definition

Complete set of all binary codes that hardware/software can recognize

ASCII codes 65-90 represent

Uppercase letters A-Z

ASCII codes 97-122 represent

Lowercase letters a-z

ASCII codes 48-57 represent

Digits 0-9

Python ord() function does

Converts character to ASCII code number

Python chr() function does

Converts ASCII code number to character

ASCII code for uppercase 'A'

65

ASCII code for lowercase 'a'

97

ASCII code for digit '0'

48

ASCII code for space character

32

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