Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. more commonly known as ASCII, is the standard for representing all upper-case and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuations, etc as a code ...
THE notion of assigning specific number values to letters dates back as least as far as 700 BC. According to an inscription from his reign, Sargon II, an Assyrian king, built a perimeter wall around ...