plus a selection of non-printable control characters. For example, the capital letter A is represented as 65 (41₁₆, 100 0001₂), the numeral 2 is 50 (32₁₆, 011 0010₂), the right curly brace } is 125 (7D₁₆, 111 1101₂), and the carriage return control character CR is 13 (0D₁₆, 000 1101₂).

In contrast, most computers store data in memory organized in eight-bit bytes