What is the total number of distinct characters that can be represented using the 8-bit ASCII encoding?

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12 Oct 2022
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The 8-bit ASCII encoding can represent 2 to the power of 8, which equals 256 unique characters. This is because each bit can be either 0 or 1, and with 8 bits, the total combinations are 256.

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