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**ASCII** (_American Standard Code for Information Interchange_) is a character encoding standard of 128 7-bit used by computers for converting letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes into digital form.
**ASCII** (_American Standard Code for Information Interchange_) is a character encoding standard of using 7-bit to represent 128 characters used by computers for converting letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes into digital form.
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The first 33 ASCII code points are non-printing control codes including the carriage return, line feed, tab, and several obsolete non-printable codes stemming from its origin of representing telegraph codes. The other 95 are printable characters, including digits (0-9), lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters, and punctuation symbols.

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## See also

- [ASCII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) on Wikipedia
- [RFC 20](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc20) on IETF