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Minimum number of bits needed to represent all 25 letters of the alphabet.

Minimum number of bits needed to represent all 25 letters of the alphabet.

5 bits

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a coding system assigning unique bit patterns to characters.

Unicode

Character set using 32 bits to represent characters in various languages worldwide.

How many printable characters are there?

95 characters in ASCII that are printable.

Non-printable characters

32 characters in ASCII reserved for non-printable control codes.

Total ASCII characters

127 characters in total in the ASCII system.