2006-09-22 23:52:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1957 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.
A byte is commonly used as a unit of storage measurement in computers, regardless of the type of data being stored. It is also one of the basic integral data types in many programming languages.byte is sequence of a fixed number of bits (binary digits). In recent years, the use of a byte to mean 8 bits has become nearly ubiquitous.
1 byte= 8 bits=2 x 2 x 2=2 to raised power 3!
1 bit =2 = 2raise power 1
kilobyte(KB)= 2 raise to pwr 10=1024
megabyte(MB)=2 raised pwr 20=1024 KB
Gigabyte(GB)=2 raised to power 30=1024MB
2006-09-23 00:07:58 · answer #1 · answered by Neeraj Yadav♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A byte is always 8 bits. Some computers have a register size of 10 or 12 bits and the users incorrectly refer to this as a byts size of 10 or 12, but these are more correctly known as 10 bit and 12 bit words.
A byte can store 256 possible different states, so it can be used to store a number in the range 0 to 255, or -128 to +127, or an alphanumeric character in a character set with 256 possible characters, such as the ANSI set.
2006-09-22 23:56:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A byte is the smallest unit of data storage used to describe memory storage in computers. One byte is equal to 8 bits. Bits are any binary digits(0 or 1). So it is a series of 8 binary digits. The term byte was given by Werner Buchholz in 1957 during the designing phase for the IBM Stretch computer.
2006-09-23 00:12:08 · answer #3 · answered by awesome nd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A byte is 8 bits of information where each bit can be either 0 or 1. A bit of information is sufficient to indicate if something is on or off, true or false. It's also enough to represent a zero or a one. Two bits are sufficient to represent up to 4 conditions or 4 numbers. For example 00, 01, 10, 11 are the ways two bits can represent 4 pieces of information. A "byte" is simply a grouping of 8 bits of information. A byte can represent 8 pieces of information. Taken together these 8 bits can also represent up to 256 combinations (of these 8 bits of information).
2006-09-23 00:03:53 · answer #4 · answered by daysailor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
2006-09-23 00:07:09 · answer #5 · answered by Dhanasekaran K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-23 00:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by L S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Please see the webpage for more details on Byte.
2006-09-23 00:03:29 · answer #7 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋