COMPUTER HARDWARE
COMPUTER MEMORY
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Bit
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Byte
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Giga Byte
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The number of bytes and words used for an individual data value will vary depending on the storage format, the operating system, and even the computer hardware, but in many cases, a single letter or character of text takes up one byte and an integer, or whole number, takes up one word.
Detailed explanation-2: -1 byte. 4 bytes is the memory it takes to store 1 character, so 1 byte is a pretty good starting point. A single page of text has about 500 characters. We can change 500 characters into 2000 bytes, or about two kilobytes of memory.
Detailed explanation-3: -(i.e. 0-255). Eight bits are called a byte. One byte character sets can contain 256 characters. The current standard, though, is Unicode which uses two bytes to represent all characters in all writing systems in the world in a single set.