About the Tool

The ASCII to Binary Converter tool is designed to translate ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) characters into their equivalent binary representations. ASCII is a character encoding standard used in electronic communication, encoding 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers.

What is ASCII?

ASCII includes the English alphabet (both uppercase and lowercase), digits (0-9), punctuation marks, and control characters (such as newline and carriage return). Each character in ASCII is represented by a unique numerical code.

Understanding Binary

The binary system is the fundamental language of computers, representing all data using just two symbols: 0 and 1. Each digit in a binary number is known as a bit. ASCII characters are typically represented using 7 bits, although they are often stored in 8 bits for byte alignment.

Conversion Process

Converting ASCII to binary involves taking each character in the text, finding its ASCII numerical code, and then converting that decimal number into binary. For example:

• The ASCII code for 'A' is 65 in decimal, which translates to 1000001 in binary.
• The ASCII code for 'a' is 97 in decimal, resulting in 1100001 in binary.