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All right, let's keep that cs journey going.
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We are looking now at storing characters.
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We talked about storing numbers, and those are things like using the binary number system to store numbers as sequences of zeros and ones.
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So what about if we want to store characters or letters? well, there's a number of systems that are used, but we have to remember that at the core, things need to be converted to numeric values.
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So this is where we get into these conversion systems.
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One of those is asc -i -s -c -i, sometimes pronounce asc -e, and this is a system that was used to convert characters like letters or exclamation points, punctuation into numeric values.
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It stands for the american standard code information interchange...