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bit
The smallest unit of information on a machine.
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nibble
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Used to refer to a four bit aggregation or most half octet.
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byte
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is composed of 8 consecutive bits.
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megabyte
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A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to
1,048,576 (220) bytes. 2. One million bytes.
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A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to
1,024 megabytes (230bytes). 2. One billion bytes.
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