bits and bites absolutely delici oh my God this is cat
food no but seriously bits and bites are
the units to measure computer data bit
is the smallest form of data and it's basically like an onoff switch it can be
either a zero or a one but that's it
even basic information like a letter of the alphabet cannot be expressed as a
bit in spite of the name alphabet you'll need a bite which is a series of eight
bits in order to express even something as simple as a character of text you can
think of it as eight on orof switches which can be configured in any number of
different combinations to represent different values often a letter of the
alphabet or another character for example this is TQ for Techquickie
represented in 16 bits or two bytes and
this is a smiley face represented in 16 bits or two bytes but you're a
sophisticated guy you might need to store data that's more complicated than
a single letter of the alphabet and the simple answer is you're going to need
more bites by the way these taste awful for example even a text document that
contains only three characters would need more than one bite of data to
represent it that is why we have prefixes like kilo Mega and Giga to
refer to much larger file sizes I mean otherwise in casual conversation we'd
have to say things like oh hey man how big is that song Oh around uh
3,521 36 62 bytes or you could just say
3 and 1/2 Megs so when do you use bits
and when do you use bytes the general rule that I use is bits for interface
speed bytes for data storage so here's an example your internet service
provider has a plan for you that's 100 megabit per second and you have a file
that's 100 megabytes don't get confused
you're not going to be able to download a 100 megabyte file size in 1 second
with that plan it'll actually take more like about a seconds because 100 megabit
is around 12.5 megabytes where it gets
really confusing sometimes they represent
speeds in bytes too like when you transfer files on your computer from one
folder to another one so the best way to keep from getting confused is to follow
a couple of simple rules number one rule is the Big B anytime it's denoted is for
btes the bigger unit and a small B is
for bits which is the smaller unit big letter Big Unit small letter small unit
and rule number two is you can use this simple and approximate very approximate
not correct conversion where you take a number that you read in bits and you
divide it by 10 to get bytes for example that internet service provider that
advertises 100 megabit per second in theory 12.5 megabytes not going to
happen in the real world due to network protocol inefficiencies or any other
snafus that might occur in the ad IED speed so it'll probably be more like 10
megabytes per second even if your service provider is being honest about
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