https://cienciaprogramada.com/tags/ascii/ Recent content in ASCII on Ciência Programada Hugo -- gohugo.io en contato[@]cienciaprogramada.com.br (Francisco Bustamante) contato[@]cienciaprogramada.com.br (Francisco Bustamante) © 2026 Francisco Bustamante Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://cienciaprogramada.com/2026/04/data-representation/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 contato[@]cienciaprogramada.com.br (Francisco Bustamante) https://cienciaprogramada.com/2026/04/data-representation/ Uppercase and lowercase differ by a single bit in the ASCII table, and that was no accident. To the hardware everything is bits, and the value depends on the reading convention: ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8 for text, two’s complement for integers, and IEEE 754 for real numbers.