#3 What is a Byte?
Kopec Explains Software
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The Power of Two
Bits are representing electrical signals that are either on or off. The system is called binary because it's in base two. A byte can represent 256 different possible values. You need 8 million ones and zeros to represent a megabyte. It's kind of crazy though that just eight bits or one byte gets you so much.
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