• The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single...
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    In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising...
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  • Look up Byte, Bytes, byte, or bytes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that...
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    Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage...
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  • UTF-8 (redirect from Continuation byte)
    four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes. It was designed...
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  • The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number...
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  • Megabyte (redirect from Mega byte)
    The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB. The unit prefix mega is a multiplier of 1000000...
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  • Kilobyte (redirect from Kilo byte)
    The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as a multiplication...
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    Gigabyte (redirect from GigaByte)
    unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The...
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  • be aligned if the data is stored in four consecutive bytes and the first byte lies on a 4-byte boundary. Data alignment is the aligning of elements according...
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