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Binary code
The term
binary code
can mean several different things:
There are a variety of different methods of coding numbers or symbols into strings of bits, including fixed-length
binary numbers
,
prefix codes
such as
Huffman codes
, and other coding techniques including
arithmetic coding
.
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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