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Alphabetic Characters

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Escape Sequences

When you use alphabetic characters in your program

The compiler considers them as numbers but converts each to its corresponding character following the ASCII list

Counting decimal values starting at 0, the first 32 characters actually do not display anything on the screen:

They are called non-printing characters

They are obtained from pressing Ctrl and an alphabetic letter or [...]

The Hexadecimal System

The hexadecimal system uses sixteen (16) symbols to represent a number

Since the Latin language consists of only 10 digits, we cannot make up new ones
The hexadecimal system uses alphabetic characters
After counting from 0 to 9, the system uses letters until it gets 16 different values
(B-1) The hexadecimal system counts as follows:

Example of (B-1)

0, 1, 2, [...]