Question

What does EBCDIC stand for?

(a) Extended Binary Converted Decimal Intermediate Code

(b) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Intermediate Code

(c) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

(d) Extended Binary Converted Decimal Interchange Code

The question was posed to me in an international level competition.

I need to ask this question from EBCDIC topic in portion Computer Codes of Computer Fundamentals

Answer 1

Right choice is (c) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

Easiest explanation: EBCDIC is the Extended BCD interchange code. It uses 8 bits to represent a symbol. It can represent 256 different characters.