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Within Vinony's link graph, octet is referenced by 179 other articles, and connects out to bit, octal and Request for Comments.
It is catalogued under the topic Units of information.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unit of information
- Said to be same as
- byte
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- conversion to standard unit
- 8
- unit symbol
- o
Sources (2)
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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.
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