Units of information
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Units of information
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In digital computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure information contained in messages and the entropy of random variables. The most commonly used units of data storage capacity are the bit, the capacity of a system that has only two states, and the byte, which is equivalent
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Capacity of information storage and communication
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_information
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2008-06-22T16:01:14Z
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2024-09-09T22:27:36Z
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