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unit of digital information

Key facts

Unit system
units derived from bit
Unit of
digital information, data size
Symbol
o
In primary units of information
1 o = 8 bits

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the term byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of sizes.

The term octad(e) for eight bits is no longer common.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “octet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.