Is there eight bits in a bite. Is this computer lingo?

Answer 1

bit = 1 or 0
byte = 8 bits
kilobyte = 1024 bytes
megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
gigabyte = 1024 megabytes

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more detailed version i posted yesterday on someone elses post

1 bit is the smallest form of info your computer reads (1 or 0)
1 byte = 8 bits
1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes or 8192 bits
1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes or 8388608 bytes or 67108864 bits
1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes or 1048576 kilobytes or 1073741824 bytes or 8589934592 bits\

Answer 2

Yes, computer lingo. There are 8 bits in a byte. The full value is 255 (including zero).

Generally speaking, we'd call a two byte thing a WORD.

A 4 byte word would be a DOUBLE WORD.

A half byte of just 4 bits may be called a nibble. (there is now computer lingo for CHOMP)

Answer 3

Yep. 1 bit is a 1 or a 0. There are 8 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte, 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte, etc.

Answer 4

Bits In A Bite

Answer 5

The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1957 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. Originally it was defined in instructions by a 4-bit byte-size field, allowing from one to sixteen bits (the production design reduced this to a 3-bit byte-size field, allowing from one to eight bits in a byte); typical I/O equipment of the period used six-bit units. A fixed eight-bit byte size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/360.

Answer 6

there is 8 bits in a dollar, too.. thats not computer lingo..

Answer 7

Yup, only "bite" is actually "Byte"

Answer 8

Yep, yep!