Chapter 1.3, Problem 15CP

Explanation of Solution

ASCII character Set:

The ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”.

• • It uses 128 unique characters that represent the English letters, punctuation, and other characters.
• • It is the most important coding scheme in computer memory to represent characters in the computer memory.
• • It uses seven bits to represent each character in the set. Check bit is used as the eighth bit to ensure proper data transmission.
• • Extended ASCII character version includes the eighth bit and allows 256 unique characters, which include some additional symbols and some accented letters.
• • ASCII has a finite number of characters; it lists them all and assigns the binary string value to each one of them.
• • ASCII character set as well as Unicode character set treat uppercase and lowercase letters distinctly...