{"id":103,"date":"2020-04-13T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2020-05-16T22:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:24:44","slug":"words-into-numbers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/meeting-1\/words-into-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Words into Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Instead of coding each alphabet with another alphabet, we can instead assign a number to each alphabet.  This is actually how a computer stores its information at the most basic level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For electronic communication, there is a standard coding called ASCII (<strong>A<\/strong>merican <strong>S<\/strong>tandard <strong>C<\/strong>ode for <strong>I<\/strong>nformation <strong>I<\/strong>nterchange) that assigns a 3-digit number and a 7-bit <em>binary<\/em> code for each letter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/ascii.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/ascii.png 380w, https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/ascii-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption>From http:\/\/sticksandstones.kstrom.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you figure out what is the word below?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-center has-large-font-size has-primary-color has-subtle-background-background-color\">077097116104101109097084105099115<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s  build our own number code for each letter of the alphabet with just using two digits?  Don&#8217;t forget about giving a code for &#8220;space.&#8221;   You can use a spreadsheet.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try using your code to write your full name and the name of your school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of coding each alphabet with another alphabet, we can instead assign a number to each alphabet. This is actually how a computer stores its information at the most basic level. For electronic communication, there is a standard coding called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) that assigns a 3-digit number and a 7-bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/112"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ps.uci.edu\/mathceo-old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}