Brief Esssay on Computer Codes

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asks for a nail of a particular size, what shall we do? We have to search the entire tool box for the nail, which would not be faster.

Instead, if the nails / nut bolts are kept in different packets as per their sizes. Then imagine the finding a nail of any given size! Definitely, the search would be faster!! Exactly, the encoding of characters does that in digital operation.

Encoding of the characters began as early as 1963. A data may consists of either a single character or a number of characters. Computer accepts each character as a group of bits. Such a group of bits used to represent a character (a letter, a number or any special symbol) is called a byte. In modern digital computers a byte consists of 8 bits, i.e. every character is represented internally by a group of 8 bits.

There may be different ways of encoding every character used for a computer. In order to avoid any ambiguity, some standards have been defined by the computer industries. Notable among them are ...

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