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OCR: SECTION CHAPTER How op digital devices represent words and letters? FIGURE 1-25 Character data composed of letters symbols, pue numerals that are not A computer treats the letters used in arithmetic operations. Examples of character data include your and symbols in the word HI!as name address, and hair color. Just as Morse code uses dashes and dots to character data, which can be represent the letters of the alphabet digital computer uses series of bits represented by a string of 0s to represent letters characters, and numerals. Figure 1-25 illustrates how a and computer can use 0s and 1s to represent the letters and symbols in the text HI! Digital devices employ several types of codes to represent character data, including ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode. ASCII (American Standard Code for Infor ...