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    Byte - Wikipedia
    Unit systemunit derived from bit
    Unit ofdigital information, data size
    SymbolB, o (when 8 bits)
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    Etymology and history

    The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer, which had addressing to the bit and variable field length (VFL) instructions with a byte size … See more

    Unit symbol

    The unit symbol for the byte is specified in IEC 80000-13, IEEE 1541 and the Metric Interchange Format as the upper-case character B.
    In the International System of Quantities (ISQ), B is … See more

    Multiple-byte units

    More than one system exists to define unit multiples based on the byte. Some systems are based on powers of 10, following the International System of Units (SI), which defines for example the prefix kilo as 1000 (10 ); other … See more

    Common uses

    Many programming languages define the data type byte.
    The C and C++ programming languages define byte as an "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basi… See more

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