Binary code: Difference between revisions

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The term '''binary code''' can mean several different things:

#REDIRECT [[binary and text files]]

* There are a variety of different methods of coding numbers or symbols into strings of bits, including fixed-length [[binary number]]s, and [[Huffman code]]s and other [[prefix code]]s

* [[binary and text files]] on computers are represented as binary codes

* and characters within text files can be represented by any of a number of [[character code]] systems, including [[ASCII]], [[EBCDIC]] and [[Unicode]].

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