4 bits is a nybble
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satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 months agoA byte is eight bits.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
xenoclast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. I am dumb.
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satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 months agoA byte is eight bits.
4 bits is a nybble
Yes. I am dumb.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s a matter of convention, not technical definition. A byte can be any number of bits, depending on hardware. For a while 6 bit bytes were common. RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
French people do too. On second hand websites in Switzerland you always see that some disks are listed for e.g. 250 Go and others for 250 GB, depending on the first language of the seller.