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Explain how the ASCII and decimal versions are abstractions of the binary digits.

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A later version of ASCII called extended ASCII uses 8 digits long binary string giving it the ability to represent 256 different characters. ASCII includes, primarily, two types of characters, which are control characters (represented by 0-31 decimal and 127 decimal) and printable characters (represented by 32- 126 decimal).

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