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In [[computing]], the '''byte''' (/ˈbaɪt/) is a [[unit of digital information]] that most commonly consists of eight [[Bit|bits]].

== Description ==

Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single [[Character (computing)|character]] of [[text]] in a [[computer], and for this reason it is the smallest [[Address space|addressable]] unit of [[Computer memory]] in many [[Computer architecture|computer architectures]].

== Byte size ==

The [[size of the byte]] has historically been [[hardware dependent]] and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size.

The ''de facto'' standard of eight bits is a convenient [[power of two]] permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte.

The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning.

Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers optimize for this common usage.

== Eight-bit bytes ubiquitous ==

The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit size.

== Octet ==

The unit ''octet'' was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of 8 bits because of the ambiguity associated at the time with the byte.

The usage of the term octad(e) for 8 bits is no longer common today.

== See also ==

* [[Address space]]
* [[Bit]]
* [[Computer]]
* [[Computer architecture]]
* [[Computing]]
* [[Units of information]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte Byte] @ Wikipedia

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