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A byte is comprised of ________.

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One bit
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Four bits
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Eight bits
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Sixteen bits
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None of the above
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Solution

The correct option is C Eight bits

A byte is comprised of Eight bits.

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits, representing a binary number. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.

byte is always 8 bits in modern computing. In the book, the word and the size of the word is explicitly mentioned, while there is not a word (haha) about bytes. Look at the phrase ..is represented in RAM by 32 consecutive 16-bit words. . ... Words are quite important when it comes to processor architecture.

there's a big difference between a bit and a byte. A byte is much bigger — eight times bigger, to be exact, with eight bits in every byte. By extension, there are eight megabits in every megabyte, and one gigabyte is eight times bigger than one gigabit.


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