INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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byte
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bit
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is 8. A byte is a unit of data that is equal to eight bits. A byte is a unit that most computers use to represent a character, such as a letter, number, or symbol.
Detailed explanation-2: -The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -A group of eight bits is called a byte. Therefore, a byte is a combination of eight 0’s and 1’s. Eight bits = 1 byte. Capacity of computer memory, storage such as USB devices, DVD’s are measured in bytes. For example a Word file might be 35 KB while a picture taken by a digital camera might be 4.5 MG.
Detailed explanation-4: -A byte consists of 8 adjacent binary digits (bits), each of which consists of a 0 or 1. (Originally, a byte was any string of more than one bit that made up a simple piece of information like a single character. Thus, for example, there were four-or six-bit bytes, but eventually the standard settled on eight bits.)