Bits vs Bytes as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2014-05-07
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bits and bites absolutely delici oh my God this is cat
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food no but seriously bits and bites are
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the units to measure computer data bit
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is the smallest form of data and it's basically like an onoff switch it can be
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either a zero or a one but that's it
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even basic information like a letter of the alphabet cannot be expressed as a
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bit in spite of the name alphabet you'll need a bite which is a series of eight
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bits in order to express even something as simple as a character of text you can
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think of it as eight on orof switches which can be configured in any number of
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different combinations to represent different values often a letter of the
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alphabet or another character for example this is TQ for Techquickie
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represented in 16 bits or two bytes and
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this is a smiley face represented in 16 bits or two bytes but you're a
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sophisticated guy you might need to store data that's more complicated than
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a single letter of the alphabet and the simple answer is you're going to need
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more bites by the way these taste awful for example even a text document that
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contains only three characters would need more than one bite of data to
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represent it that is why we have prefixes like kilo Mega and Giga to
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refer to much larger file sizes I mean otherwise in casual conversation we'd
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have to say things like oh hey man how big is that song Oh around uh
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3,521 36 62 bytes or you could just say
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3 and 1/2 Megs so when do you use bits
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and when do you use bytes the general rule that I use is bits for interface
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speed bytes for data storage so here's an example your internet service
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provider has a plan for you that's 100 megabit per second and you have a file
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that's 100 megabytes don't get confused
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you're not going to be able to download a 100 megabyte file size in 1 second
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with that plan it'll actually take more like about a seconds because 100 megabit
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is around 12.5 megabytes where it gets
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really confusing sometimes they represent
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speeds in bytes too like when you transfer files on your computer from one
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folder to another one so the best way to keep from getting confused is to follow
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a couple of simple rules number one rule is the Big B anytime it's denoted is for
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btes the bigger unit and a small B is
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for bits which is the smaller unit big letter Big Unit small letter small unit
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and rule number two is you can use this simple and approximate very approximate
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not correct conversion where you take a number that you read in bits and you
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divide it by 10 to get bytes for example that internet service provider that
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advertises 100 megabit per second in theory 12.5 megabytes not going to
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happen in the real world due to network protocol inefficiencies or any other
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snafus that might occur in the ad IED speed so it'll probably be more like 10
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megabytes per second even if your service provider is being honest about
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their speeds speaking of reading this video is brought to you by audible.com
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I've heard well and experienc that you can download eBooks from the megabits
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actually no I'm just kidding you can actually download books from the internet you can listen to them whether
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it's on your smartphone on your couch in your car while you're commuting or whatever else the case may be you can
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even get a free ebook by visiting audible.com tequ where you can download
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pretty much anything you want I meant to read this book and instead what I ended
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up doing is picking up the ebook because even though it'll take about twice as
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long to listen to this book as it will to read it I don't have the time to sit
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down and dedicate to reading it whereas I can listen to it while I'm doing other
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things the other cool thing about this one is the fact that the audible ebook
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is read by Jim Collins himself which means he added a little bit of insight
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and tailored the experience to the listening version as opposed to the
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reading version which was very very cool now I'd like to change things up a
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little bit for my next ebook and I'd love for you guys to check out the audible bestsellers list and leave your
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suggestions in the comments in this video I would like to try something that
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is entertaining as opposed to business oriented and I'd like to try something
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that was read by someone other than the author so that I can have that
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experience as well and as always guys
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