byte

Unit of digital information equal to 8 bits

Entityunit of information UCUM derived unitQ8799

Also known as B · u8 · octet · eight-bit byte · 8-bit byte

Instance of: unit of information
, UCUM derived unit

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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 refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with numbering from 0 to 7 or 7 to 0 depending on the bit endianness.

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Said to be the same as: octet
Conversion to standard unit: 1 byte
8 bit
0.0009766 kibibyte
2 nibble
Members / parts: bit quantity: 8
Different from: bit
byte
Unit symbol: B
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Sources
1.Stated in JEDEC memory standards
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Б
B
Measured physical quantity: information
Used by: Rust object named as: u8
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Sources
1.doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u8.html
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Conversion to SI unit: 1

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