Data unit

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.

base memory unit handled by a computer

computer architecture bit width

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computer architecture bit width

computer architecture bit width

computer architecture bit width

computer architecture bit width

computer architecture bit width

Computer architecture bit width

Computer architecture bit width

Computer architecture bit width

Computer architecture bit width

Computer architecture bit width

Computer architecture bit width

computer architecture bit width