I have found in book written "for example 1101 is a byte". Is it true?
2006-07-04 20:33:27 · 4 answers · asked by computersir 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Maybe it means that you must consider it as:
00001101 which has four leading zeros
(specially when performing operations such as 2's complement and specially if that book is a C or assembly book)
As other friends said unit of information having four bits is called a nibble (half of a byte)
2006-07-05 01:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by ali_fakoor 3 · 12⤊ 0⤋
No, 1101 would be a what is known as a "nibble".
A byte consists of a combination of eight ones and zeroes. An example would be "11001001."
In case you wanted to know, there are 256 possible combinations of 1's and 0's in a byte.
2006-07-05 03:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by QWERTY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1101 is 4 bits, which is generally called a nybble (with a y;not a typo). A byte consists of 8 bits.
2006-07-05 03:44:27 · answer #3 · answered by AWal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A byte in most systems is 8 bits.
2006-07-05 03:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by shadowkat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋