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Characters are represented as numbers, too
The easiest way to store something like a name is to assign each number from 0 to 255 with a character.
For
example: “A” = 65, “D” = 68, “d” = 100.
One such assignment is the
(Technie nomenclature) ASCII character set which is a national standard.