Bits and Bytes

The binary digits 0 and 1 are each called a bit.

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A group of 8 bits is known as a gigabyte.

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A group of 1024 bytes is called a terabyte.

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A group of 1024 kilobytes is called a megabyte.

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A group of 1024 megabytes is called a byte.

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The smallest unit for storing data, either a 0 or a 1, is called a byte.

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A bit generally consists of eight bytes.

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A bit is smaller than a byte.

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A word is the number of bits that can be processed by the CPU at one time.

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A 32-bit word size is larger than a 64-bit word size.

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