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Computer encoding of characters
A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths that are a multiple of 6. Six bits can only encode 64 distinct characters, so these codes generally include only the upper-case letters, the numerals, some punctuation characters, and sometimes control characters. The 7-track magnetic tape format was developed to store data in such codes, along with an additional parity bit. Wikipedia →
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The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
The training of a priestJohn Talbot Smith · 1899
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The Thaw and the Samaritan · 1974
Mysteries in Bamboo VillageOpeyemi matthew adejobi · 2015
A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025
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