2007-05-10 20:45:20 · 3 answers · asked by subramani 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Your talking about binary...
A single digit of a binary number is a bit.
A byte is 8 bits
A nibble is 4 bits (half a byte)
A word is 2 bytes
so, the same again, in binary
0
00000000
0000
00000000 00000000
It's been a while, I hope I got it right.
2007-05-10 20:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knute is 75% right.
A word actually depends on which CPU you are talking about. In a 16-bit CPU like 8086, a word is indeed 2-bytes. However, in a 8-bit CPU like 8008, a word would be a byte, and in a 32-bit CPU like Pentium, a word would be 4 bytes.
However, 80x86 was so common, people started defining a word as 2 bytes. So technically it isn't wrong... it just isn't always right.
Don't believe me? Check webopedia.com
2007-05-10 21:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a bit is the most basic type of measurement of space on computers byte is the next and megabyte gigabyte so on so forth but the explanation for nibble is harder so ill give you the wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble
2007-05-10 20:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by the_dude3654 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋