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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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