bit pairing

bit pairing: The practice of establishing, within a code set, a number of subsets that have an identical bit representation except for the state of a specified bit. (188) Note: An example of bit pairing occurs in the International Alphabet No. 5 and the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), where the upper case letters are related to their respective lower case letters by the state of bit six.

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