**ASCII** - *American Standard Code for Information Interexchange* - assigns letters, numbers, characters, and symbols a slot in the 256 available slots in the 8-bit code. 

Most computers use ASCII to represent text, which makes data transfer between different systems possible.

The standard ASCII text uses 7-bits to represent the characters. Other extended character sets use 8-bits to represent non-English characters.
# ASCII Sections
* 0-32 are Non-printable system codes.
* 32-127 are Standard ASCII or lower ASCII codes and are based on 7-bits.
* 128-255 are Higher ASCII codes. These depend upon the language of the Operating System and program.

# Standard ASCII
The following table represents the standard characters and their decimal values in ASCII.

What is ASCII?

ASCII assigns characters to slots in 8-bit code, enabling text representation and data transfer between systems.