In class, we discussed that all storage on the computer is in binary, and this is interpreted as either numbers or characters. One of the earliest character encoding formats was ASCII. A lower case $"$a$"$ in ASCII has a value of $97($binary $01100001).$ ASCII has largely been replaced with UNICODE, which allows for a broader range of characters from other languages.

The original ASCII codes allowed for $128$ unique characters. Extended ASCII allowed for $256.$ How mahy bytes did each character require for Extended ASCII characters? $$

$3$

$8$

$1$

$2$