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-as of [6 OCTOBER 2024]–
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1 [BYTE] = 8 [BITS]
-A [BYTE] CAN CONTAIN [256 UNIQUE VALUES]-
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*WHEN EXPRESSED AS “POWER OF 2″* —>
[1 BIT] = [21]
(2 VALUES)
[1 BYTE] = [28]
(256 VALUES)
[1 KILO-BYTE] = [210]
(1024 VALUES)
[1 MEGA-BYTE] = [220]
(1,048,576 VALUES)
(~1.048576 MILLION VALUES)
[1 GIGA-BYTE] = [230]
(1,073,741,824 VALUES)
(~1.073741824 BILLION VALUES)
[1 TERA-BYTE] = [240]
(1,099,511,627,776 VALUES)
(~1.099511627776 TRILLION VALUES)
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[1 PETA-BYTE] = [250]
(1,125,899,906,842,624 VALUES)
(~1.25899906842624 QUADRILLION VALUES)
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*WHEN EXPRESSED AS “POWER OF 10″* —>
“kilobyte” = 1,000 bytes
(103)
(‘thousand’)
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“megabyte” = 1,000,000 bytes
(106)
(‘million’)
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“gigabyte” = 1,000,000,000 bytes
(109)
(‘billion’)
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“terabyte” = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
(1012)
(‘trillion’)
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[1 TERA-BYTE] = [1000 GIGA-BYTES]
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“petabyte” = 1.000,000,000,000,000 bytes
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-the byte is a ‘unit’ of ‘digital information’ that most commonly consists of 8 ‘bits’–
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(historically, the ‘byte’ was the # of ‘bits’ used to encode a single character of ‘text’ in a ‘computer’ and for this reason it is the smallest addressable ‘unit’ of ‘memory’ in many ‘computer architectures’)
(the ‘size’ of the ‘byte’ has historically been ‘hardware-dependent’ and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size)
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will we ever get around to that?”
(me? i’m all for ‘standardization”)
(“we’ve gotta uplphold a certain ‘standard’)
(“WORLD GOVERNMENT IS GOOD!)
(as long as you THINK that one day you yourself will reign over this ‘collective planetary body’)
(the de facto standard of eight bits is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte)
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(the international standard ‘IEC 80000-13’ codified this common meaning)
(many types of ‘applications’ use information representable in 8 or fewer bits and ‘processor designers’ optimize for this common usage)
(the popularity of ‘major commercial computing architectures’ has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the ‘8-bit size’)
(the unit octet was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of ‘8 bits’ because of the ambiguity associated at the time with the ‘byte’)
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(the usage of the term octad(e) for ‘8 bits’ is no longer common today)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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