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byte
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. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as the Internet Protocol () refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet.
word
base memory unit handled by a computer
16-bit computing
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nibble
192px|thumb|right|An Octet (computing)|octet [[code page 866 font table ordered by nibbles.]]
32-bit computing
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64-bit computing
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8-bit computing
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4-bit computing
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128-bit computing
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1-bit computing
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36-bit computing
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24-bit computing
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48-bit computing
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31-bit computing
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60-bit computing
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256-bit computing
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