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Count the Dots—Binary Numbers - CS Unplugged

represented using just five cards, or ‘bits’. However a computer has to know whether letters are capitals or not, and also recognise digits, punctuation and special symbols such as $ or ~. Go and look at a keyboard and work out how many characters a computer has to represent. So how many bits does a computer need to store all the characters?