byte

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noun

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A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.

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A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

If you look at the photograph of the interior of the Spectrum[…], you will see that there is one ROM chip, and 16 smaller RAM chips. These chips give the Spectrum its memory. The memory consists of 65536 storage units that each contain one byte (a number from 0 to 255).

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ADJ.

standard, typical

A standard byte consists of eight bits in most modern computer systems.

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originally

The term byte originally referred to a unit of computer memory containing eight bits.

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The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

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If you look at the photograph of the interior of the Spectrum[…], you will see that there is one ROM chip, and 16 smaller RAM chips. These chips give the Spectrum its memory. The memory consists of 65

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With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size

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A standard byte is eight bits.

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A typical byte is eight bits, meaning eight 1s and 0s.

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A byte was originally the number of bits required to represent a single character of text.

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