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Look up <i>alphanumeric</i> or <i>alphanumerical</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. <p>Alphanumericals or alphanumeric characters are any collection of number characters and letters in a certain <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">language</a>. Sometimes such characters may be mistaken one for the other. </p><p><a href="/facts/Merriam-Webster/yEt22M9H">Merriam-Webster</a> suggests that the term "alphanumeric" may often additionally refer to other symbols, such as punctuation and mathematical symbols. </p><p>In the POSIX/C <a href="/facts/Locale_(computer_software)/Hwbtpj4e">locale</a>, there are either 36 (A–Z and 0–9, case insensitive) or 62 (A–Z, a–z and 0–9, <a href="/facts/Case-sensitive/VS2eGDmY">case-sensitive</a>) alphanumeric characters. </p>