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byte

Eight bits, the smallest amount of memory that has its own address.

A byte is 8 bits and is the unit of memory addressing on every modern processor.

Examples

  • One byte holds 0 to 255 as an unsigned number: 0x00 to 0xFF.

See also

bit nibble word
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