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Classic Episode: What is a Byte? (Remastered)

Kopec Explains Software

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How Many Ones and Zeros Do I Need to Represent Baby One More Time by Britney Spears?

A hard disk today will typically be around a terabyte. And so that hard disk can actually represent 8 trillion ones and zeros. An mp3 file probably at a 128 kilobits per second rate of encoding, it will be about a megabyte per minute. A three minute song will be about three megabytes as an mp3 file.

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