Sizes
What is a bit?
What is a bit?
Information on a digital computer is stored in bits, where each bit is a 0 or a 1, which are stored as different levels of electrical charges. Bits can be combined to represent binary numerical values, which in turn can be combined to represent pictures, sound files, word-processing documents, and can also be used in transmitting information across the internet.
What is a byte?
What is a byte?
A byte is a unit of data that is 8 bits long. A byte is the standard “chunk size” for binary information in most modern computers
Larger Chunks of Data:
Larger Chunks of Data:
On modern computers the amount of information we can create and store has grown so large that we need new units of measurement to describe the size of our data.
On modern computers the amount of information we can create and store has grown so large that we need new units of measurement to describe the size of our data.
Browse through the following pages:
Stanford University - CS 101 - Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes:
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-gigabytes.html
Computer Hope - How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?