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<programming> (Or "character string") A sequence of characters.
Most programming languages consider characters and strings (e.g. "124:shabooya:\n", "hello world") to be distinct from numbers, which are typically stored in fixed-length binary or floating-point representation.
A bit string is a sequence of bits.
(2015-11-29)
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