Byte
WordNet

noun


(1)   A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
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Etymology


Expansion of bit, coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.http://www.trailing-edge.com/~bobbemer/BYTE.HTMhttp://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/102636400.txthttp://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/byte.html

Noun


  1. A sequence of adjacent bits, almost always eight, operated on as a unit by a computer; can represent an integer from 0 to 255, a pair of hexadecimal digits each from 0 to F, a pair of packed decimal digits each from 0 to 9, a packed decimal digit and a sign or a single character
    The word “hello” fits into 5 bytes of ASCII code.
 
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