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12 - Representing characters

 1. One of the main functions of any computer is that it handles text. To a computer however, all data is….

  greek

  computer code

  sequences of binary numbers

  python

 2. Text needs to be converted into __________________ in order for a computer to convert/comprehend it.

  hexadecimal code

  high level language code

  binary numbers

  python code

 3. The most commonly used 'standard' or system that allows us to use the full range of characters (e.g. A - Z including upper and lower case) is:

  BASIC

  AND LANGUAGE

  ASCII

  ARTCOL

 4. ASCII …..

  uses hexadecimal codes to represent each binary digit (e.g. 1 and 0)

  …uses binary codes to represent each character number and symbol in the chosen language

  uses python code to translate each letter of the alphabet into something we can understand

  …uses binary codes to hold either a 0 or a 1 to represent either A or B

 5. ASCII stands for: Australian Standard Code for Information Interchance

  TRUE

  FALSE

 6. The 7 bit ASCII code gives you 2 to the power of 8 possible values which is 128, so the….

  ASCII character set can store up to 256 + 100 characters

  ASCII character set goes from 1 to 27

  ASCII character set goes from 0 to 123

  ASCII character set goes from 0 to 127

 7. According to this ASCII table what is lowercase 'a'?
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  65

  66

  97

  23

 8. What binary value does the 'backspace' key on your keyboard have?
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  1000

  1100

  2321

  1010

 9. The decimal value of '35' corresponds to what ASCII value?

  The full stop "."

  The arrow >>

  The hashtag #

  The quotation mark "

 10. Standard ASCII only uses the first 128 binary numbers available out of a possible 256. _______________ take advantage of the other numbers

  other programming languages like python or java

  other civilisations

  other computers

  other languages (e.g German, Icelandic)

 11. The central point is that language and symbols can be represented as binary numbers within a computer

  True

  False

 12. When you press a key on your keyboard the ____________________ translates the signal produced from key's position into its binary code value

  character set

  ASCII set

  CPU set

  binary digit group

 13. Note that a character set is NOT a font and that a different language like Hindi would use a different character set.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 14. ASCII and extended ASCII can only cater for 256 symbols - what happens if a language requires more than this?

  We would need to use a character set that uses more than 1 byte (8 bits)

  A two byte scheme could be used to represent 65,000+ characters

  All of the above

  A two byte (16 bit) encoding standard coud be used like Unicode

 15. Look at the following list and select the statement from the options that is correct

  UTF-8 is the most widely used way to represent Unicode text in web pages (as of 2018)

  There is no such thing as UTF-32

  There is no such thing as UTF as only ASCII and EBDIC exist

  UTF is the same as ASCII


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