Question

ASCII stands for:
1. American Stable Code for International Interchange
2. American Standard Code for Institutional Interchange
3. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
4. American Standard Code for Interchange Information

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : American Standard Code for Information Interchange

The correct answer is American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

• ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
  • It is a standard data-transmission code that is used by smaller and less-powerful computers to represent both textual data (letters, numbers, and punctuation marks) and noninput-device commands (control characters).
  • It is a code that uses numbers to represent characters.
  • Each letter is assigned a number between 0 and 127.
  • An upper and lower case character is assigned different numbers.
    • For example, the character A is assigned the decimal number 65, while a is assigned decimal 97
  • It allows computers to communicate with each other and to efficiently process and store data.
  • When a computer sends data, the keys you press or the text you send and receive is sent as a bunch of numbers.
  • These numbers represent the characters you typed or generated.