Question

The EBCDIC can represent up to how many different characters ?

• A. 16
• B. 256
• C. 128
• D. 32

Answer 1

Answer:

B. 256

• EBCDIC is an 8-bit character encoding scheme. In digital systems, an 8-bit code means there are 28 possible combinations of bits.

28=2×2×2×2×2×2×2×2=256

Therefore, EBCDIC can represent 256 unique characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and control characters. This encoding was primarily developed and used by IBM in its mainframe computer systems