byte

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A unit of data, today almost always consisting of 8 bits. A byte can represent a single character, such as a letter, a digit or a punctuation mark. Because a byte represents only a small amount of information, amounts of computer memory and storage are usually given in kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), or gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).
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