Byte
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byte-165-13156936
title:
Byte
text:
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as the Internet Protocol (RFC 791) refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually cou
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Unit of digital information, usually 8 bits
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
date created:
2001-08-23T13:32:10Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T12:51:58Z
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13
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