Representing text using Unicode and ASCII
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I can explain how computers represent text.
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The number of possible states of a sequence of n bits is 2 raised to the power of n.
A character set is a ta record of characters matched to a unique binary sequence
ASCII character representation use an 7 bit binary sequence to represent each character.
Unicode character representation use up to 32 bits to represent each character.
The first 128 characters of Unicode are the same as in ASCII.
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