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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a character encoding standard used in computing and telecommunications that represents text in computers and other devices that use text. ASCII assigns unique numerical values to each character, including letters, digits, punctuation marks, and control characters, allowing for the standardized representation and exchange of textual information across different systems.
This standardization is crucial in computing and communication as it ensures consistency in how data is interpreted by various software and hardware. ASCII has been foundational in the development of later encoding systems, and although it has limitations regarding character diversity (especially for non-English characters), it remains widely used for basic text representation in programming and data formats.
The other options describe variations of ASCII that do not accurately represent the established meaning or significance of the acronym, which is clearly defined in the context of computing as focusing on information interchange.