text/57/11 The answer is 143 ~ rectangle/48/7/217/23 text/11/40 The computer can use bytes to represent more than just numbers. There are less than 256 letters, numbers and punctuat- ion markes in the English langauge. A code number has been assigned to each one. ~ text/8/104 This code system is called ASCII. (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) ~ text/340/40 With the ASCII numbers, a byte can therefore represent any standard character. Here are some examples: ~ text/350/97 #122 = 'z' ~ text/358/107 #74 = 'J' ~ text/358/117 #36 = '$' ~ text/358/127 #44 = ',' ~ text/475/97 #50 = '2' ~ text/475/107 #97 = 'a' ~ text/475/117 #63 = '?' ~ text/475/127 #112 = 'p' ~