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Storing text in binary

Problem

In the late 1980s, the ISO-8859-7 character encoding was created in order to encode Greek text files. The encoding is based on the ASCII standard but includes mappings for the letters of the Greek alphabet.
This table shows the mapping for the first 10 letters:
BinaryCharacter
11100001α
11100010β
11100011γ
11100100δ
11100101ε
11100110ζ
11100111η
11101000θ
11101001ι
11101010κ
According to ISO-8859-7, what is the binary encoding of the Greek word "και"?
Note that the Greek language is written from left to right, like the English language.
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