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  2. Alphanumericals - Wikipedia

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    When a string of mixed alphabets and numerals is presented for human interpretation, ambiguities arise. The most obvious is the similarity of the letters I, O and Q to the numbers 1 and 0. [3] Therefore, depending on the application, various subsets of the alphanumeric were adopted to avoid misinterpretation by humans.

  3. Code 128 - Wikipedia

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    It is used for alphanumeric or numeric-only barcodes. It can encode all 128 characters of ASCII and, by use of an extension symbol (FNC4), the Latin-1 characters defined in ISO/IEC 8859-1. [citation needed] It generally results in more compact barcodes compared to other methods like Code 39, especially when the texts contain mostly digits. Code ...

  4. BCD (character encoding) - Wikipedia

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    BCD (binary-coded decimal), also called alphanumeric BCD, alphameric BCD, BCD Interchange Code, [1] or BCDIC, [1] is a family of representations of numerals, uppercase Latin letters, and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes. Unlike later encodings such as ASCII, BCD codes were not standardized. Different computer ...

  5. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew writing system has only twenty-two consonant signs, so numbers can be expressed with single individual signs only up to 400. Higher hundreds – 500, 600, 700, 800, and 900 – can be written only with various cumulative-additive combinations of the lower hundreds (direction of writing is right to left): [7] תק = (400+100) 500

  6. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.

  7. Character encoding - Wikipedia

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    Punched tape with the word "Wikipedia" encoded in ASCII.Presence and absence of a hole represents 1 and 0, respectively; for example, W is encoded as 1010111.. Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. [1]

  8. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    The Natural Area Code, this is the smallest base such that all of ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ to ⁠ 1 / 6 ⁠ terminate, a number n is a regular number if and only if ⁠ 1 / n ⁠ terminates in base 30. 32: Duotrigesimal: Found in the Ngiti language. 33: Use of letters (except I, O, Q) with digits in vehicle registration plates of Hong Kong. 34

  9. Numeric character reference - Wikipedia

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    A numeric character reference (NCR) is a common markup construct used in SGML and SGML-derived markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represents a single character.