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OCR: DIGITAL ELECTRO NIC Char: racter data is composed of letters symbols and numerals that will not be used in arith- metic operations. xamples 01 char: acter data include your name hair C000r pue Social Security number Are you surprised that your Social Security numbe! considered character data? Because you are not going to use your Social Security number arithmetic operations itis considered character data Digital computers typically represent eahr acte r data using either the ASCII or EBCDIC codes ASCII the data representation code used on most microcompute rs, on many minicomputers and on some mainframe computers ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and pronounced 'ASK ee The ASCII code for an uppercase is 01000001 IBM brand I mainframe computers often use th ...