How are numbers and characters represented on a computer?

Answer 1

The most common code originally used was a 7 bit code called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) that was originally defined on October 6, 1960 for use with teletypes. However with only 128 values (33 of which were reserved for teletype control functions, most of which were irrelevant to computers) only standard US English characters could be represented.

Since 1996 there has been a gradual transition to the variable length code called Unicode (usually in UTF-8 format) that can represent most international characters.

Answer 2

Characters are represented ultimately in binary in a computer memory the same as everything else, sound, video, programs,data et.c

However, my guess is that you want the organisational codes for characters such as;

EBCDIC

ASC II

ISO

Answer 3

All information inside a computer is represented in binary. Every character is represented by a binary character code which maps to a table of character symbols (also binary encoded) stored with in the current code page.

Answer 4

All code and data in a computer system is represented in binary.

Characters are represented in a few different ways depending on the language. For the English language, theASCII character set is perhaps the most common. Using this character set, normally each character is represented by 1 byte (8 bits (8 binary digits)). As an example, a value of 65 is used for A which in binary is 01000001.

Answer 5

A computer is a very simple machine that can only understand 1's and 0's. We just put simple building blocks together to make it quite large. We must convert everything we want a computer to do into 1's and 0's, by convention we use whats called ASCII to do this.

Answer 6

omputer works with binary number system that is consist of only two digits zero and one. Inside the computer binary number is representedby an electrical

Answer 7

In Zeros and Ones