Alphanumeric is a combination of alphabetic and (sometimes shortened to alphameric), and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits used by much of western society. There are either 36 (single case) or 62 (case-sensitive) alphanumeric characters. The alphanumeric character set consists of the numbers 0 to 9 and letters A to Z. Computing In computing terminology, a character stored in alphanumeric form is considerably smaller than storing an 8-bit ASCII character, as e… (More on Alphanumeric)