Basic ASCII is a:

7 bit code

8 bit code

16 bit code

128 bit code

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.
In standard ASCII-encoded data, there are unique values for 128 alphabetic, numeric or special additional characters and control codes.
The basic ASCII codes use 7-bits for each character. This gives a total of 128 (27) possible unique symbols. The Extended ASCII character set uses 8-bits, which gives an additional 128 characters (i.e. 256 in total).

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