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ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to represent text. It was developed in the 1960s and has since become a fundamental aspect of digital communication. ASCII uses 7 or 8 bits to represent each character, allowing for a total of 128 or 256 possible characters, respectively.

The ASCII character set includes a variety of characters, such as uppercase and lowercase English letters, digits, punctuation marks, and control characters. The control characters are non-printable characters used to control devices, such as printers and terminals. For example, the ASCII code for the letter 'A' is 65, and the code for the digit '1' is 49.

ASCII is widely used in computer programming, data transmission, and storage. It is also the foundation for many other character encoding standards, such as Unicode, which is designed to support a much larger set of characters from various languages and scripts.

Despite its limitations, ASCII remains an important standard in computing. Its simplicity and widespread use make it a valuable tool for developers and a crucial component of the digital infrastructure.