UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
THE BINARY CODE FOR COMPUTERS (UNDER THE AMERICAN STANDARD CODE
FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE (ASCII)) WORKS LIKE THIS:
WHEN A COMPUTER TRANSMITS OR RECEIVES INFORMATION IT IS REDUCED TO
A PATTERN OF ELECTRICAL PULSES. "ON" IS REPRESENTED BY A "1", "OFF"
BY A "0".
FOLLOWING THIS CODE YOU CAN "SPELL" ANY WORD, JUST LIKE YOU CAN IN
ANOTHER LANGUAGE (ENGLISH) BY USING THE 26 LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET.
A 01000001 N 01001110 a 01100001 n 01101110
B 01000010 O 01001111 b 01100010 o 01101111
C 01000011 P 01010000 c 01100011 p 01110000
D 01000100 Q 01010001 d 01100100 q 01110001
E 01000101 R 01010010 e 01100101 r 01110010
F 01000110 S 01010011 f 01100110 s 01110011
G 01000111 T 01010100 g 01100111 t 01110100
H 01001000 U 01010101 h 01101000 u 01110101
I 01001001 V 01010110 i 01101001 v 01110110
J 01001010 W 01010111 j 01101010 w 01110111
K 01001011 X 01011000 k 01101011 x 01111000
L 01001100 Y 01011001 l 01101100 y 01111001
M 01001101 Z 01011010 m 01101101 z 01111010
NUMBERS ARE IN SIMILAR STYLE:
0 00110000 6 00110110
1 00110001 7 00110111
2 00110010 8 00111000
3 00110011 9 00111001
4 00110100
5 00110101
AS IS PUNCTUATION, LIKE THIS:
SPACE 00100000
PERIOD . 00101110
COMMA , 00101100
DASH - 00101101
QUOTE " 00100010
APOSTROPHE ' 00100111
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