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.