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What is a byte?

What is a byte? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
  2. (computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
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Another advantage of using Java is the cross-platform nature of the byte code that your source code is compiled into.
First we create a buffer that is one byte bigger than the user string and fill it with zeros.
I now know there are eight bits in a byte, and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte.
The 0s and 1s are then formed together to produce binary, which is interpreted by the computer as a byte of data.
Here is how this four byte sequence is interpreted as an unsigned integer under the two ordering conventions.
The time it takes to read a single byte at random is MUCH higher on a rambus system than on a DDR system.

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