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Units
Term | Definition |
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Bit | The smallest value of binary i.e. 0 or 1 |
Nibble | Binary unit of data made up of 4 bits |
Byte | Binary unit consiting of 8 bits |
Terabyte | Binary unit consisting of 1,024 gigabytes |
Kilobyte | Binary unit consisting of 1,024 bytes |
Gigabyte | Binary unit consisting of 1,024 megabytes |
Capacity | Characteristic for how much data a storage device can hold. |
Denary | Number system from 0–9 used by humans |
Binary | Number system that computers use to represent data/instructions because electricity has 2 states (on or off) |