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TSCII is a character encoding scheme that can encode

text written in the Tamil language. TSCII uses one byte to
encode each character.
This binary data is a TSCII encoding of a single Tamil
word:
11111110110001001100010110111010
How many characters are encoded in that binary
data?

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Answer: 8 Characters are encoded here.

Step-by-step explanation:

Every character is encoded in a byte (8 bits). As a result, each character has eight bits, and the binary code provided encodes eight characters.

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