Byte | Byte, Computing, Units of information, Telecommunication, Bit, Binary numeral system, Character (computing), Address space, Computer architecture

Frederic P. Miller (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 613063529X / ISBN 13: 9786130635299

Published by OmniScriptum, 2026

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Byte | Byte, Computing, Units of information, Telecommunication, Bit, Binary numeral system, Character (computing), Address space, Computer architecture | Frederic P. Miller (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786130635299 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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• Title: Byte | Byte, Computing, Units of information, Telecommunication, Bit, Binary numeral system, Character (computing), Address space, Computer architecture
• Publisher: OmniScriptum
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 613063529X
• ISBN 13: 9786130635299
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 5D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 137 grams
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Synopsis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications. It is an ordered collection of bits, in which each bit denotes the binary value of 1 or 0. Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a character of text in a computer and it is for this reason the basic addressable element in many computer architectures. The size of a byte is typically hardware dependent, but the modern de facto standard is 8 bits, as this is a convenient power of 2. Other factors behind this particular size may be the IBM System/360 architecture, introduced in the 1960s, and the 8-bit microprocessors, introduced in the 1970s. No formal definition exists however, and other sizes have been used in various computers historically.The term octet is widely used as a precise synonym of the 8-bit byte where ambiguity is undesirable, such as in communications protocol definitions.