Labels:book | chat room | hakham | sky OCR: SECTION c CHAPTER QUANTIFYING BITS AND BYTES How can I tell the difference between bits and bytes? The ads for digital devices typically include lots of abbreviations relating to bits and bytes. A few key concepts can help you understand what these abbre- viations mean. Even though the pod bit is an abbreviation for binary digit t can be further abbreviated usually as lowercase On older digital devices, bits were handled in groups, and terminology from that era c still used. group of 8 bits is called a byte and usually abbre- viated as an uppercase Transmission speeds are typically expressed in bits, whereas storage space IS typically expressed ir bytes For example cable Internet con- nection might transfer data from the Internet to your computer at megabits per second In an iPod ad you mi ...
