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-as of [6 OCTOBER 2024]–
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-BINARY-
*FIRST “POWER OF 2”-
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-2 BITS IS [22]-
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-THE [BYTE]-
(8 BITS)
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-a bit is the basic unit of [information] in [computing/digital communications]-
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-WHEN MEASURING “DATA SIZE”, EACH “UNIT” REPRESENTS A “UNIQUE VALUE”-
(A [BIT] HAS 2 POSSIBLE “UNIQUE VALUES”)
(A [BYTE] HAS 256 POSSIBLE “UNIQUE VALUES”)
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(a ‘bit’ can have only 1 of 2 ‘values’, and may therefore be ‘physically implemented’ with a ‘2-state device’)
(these values are most commonly represented as either a ‘0’ or ‘1’)
(the term bit is a ‘portmanteau’ of “binary digit”)
(the 2 values can also be interpreted as ‘logical values’ (as in ‘true / false’ . ‘yes’ / ‘no’), ‘algebraic signs’ (+/−), ‘activation states’ (‘on’ / ‘off’), or any other ‘2-valued attribute’)
(the correspondence between these ‘values’ and the ‘physical states’ of the underlying ‘storage’ or ‘device’ is a matter of ‘convention’, and different assignments may be used even within the same ‘device’ or ‘program’)
(the ‘length’ of a ‘binary number’ may be referred to as its ‘bit-length’)
(in ‘information theory’, 1 ‘bit’ is typically defined as the uncertainty of a ‘binary random variable’ that is ‘0’ or ‘1’ with ‘equal probability’, or the ‘information’ that is gained when the ‘value’ of such a ‘variable’ becomes ‘known’)
(in ‘quantum computing’, a quantum bit or ‘qubit’ is a ‘quantum system’ that can exist in ‘superposition’ of 2 ‘classical’ (i.e., ‘non-quantum’) bit values)
(the symbol for ‘bit’, as a ‘unit of information’, is either simply bit (recommended by the ‘ISO/IEC standard 80000-13’ (2008)) or lowercase b (recommended by the ‘IEEE 1541 Standard’ (2002))
(a group of 8 ‘bits’ is commonly called 1 ‘byte’)
(but historically the size of the ‘byte’ is not ‘strictly defined’)
(???)
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(in terms of data transfer…)
Mbps –> ‘mega-bits per second’
(transfer rate)
MBps –> ‘mega-bytes per second’
(file sizes are measured in ‘bytes’ / not ‘bits’)
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