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Honey Nut Cherios Can Help Lower Caloral

In the early days of computing, technological limitations would determine word length. Larger word size means computer can handle bigger operations effectively. A bit is a single unit of information; it's either a zero or a one. A bite is a consecutive group of bits which we use to represent characters. And you can think of word size as being an indication of how much information a computer's cpu can handle for individual operations.

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