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  2. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    0.6–1.3 bits – approximate information per letter of English text. [3] 2 0: bit: 10 0: bit 1 bit – 0 or 1, false or true, Low or High (a.k.a. unibit) 1.442695 bits (log 2 e) – approximate size of a nat (a unit of information based on natural logarithms) 1.5849625 bits (log 2 3) – approximate size of a trit (a base-3 digit) 2 1

  3. Megabyte - Wikipedia

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    1.44 MB floppy disks can store 1,474,560 bytes of data. MB in this context means 1,000×1,024 bytes. Depending on compression methods and file format, a megabyte of data can roughly be: a 1 megapixel bitmap image (e.g. ~1152 × 864) with 256 colors (8 bits/pixel color depth) stored without any compression.

  4. Units of information - Wikipedia

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    1 bit: Answer to a yes/no question; 1 byte: A number from 0 to 255; 90 bytes: Enough to store a typical line of text from a book; 512 bytes = 0.5 KiB: The typical sector size of an old style hard disk drive (modern Advanced Format sectors are 4096 bytes). 1024 bytes = 1 KiB: A block size in some older UNIX filesystems

  5. Computer number format - Wikipedia

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    For instance, using a 32-bit format, 16 bits may be used for the integer and 16 for the fraction. The eight's bit is followed by the four's bit, then the two's bit, then the one's bit. The fractional bits continue the pattern set by the integer bits. The next bit is the half's bit, then the quarter's bit, then the ⅛'s bit, and so on. For example:

  6. Byte - Wikipedia

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    The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. 1 byte (B) = 8 bits (bit). Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures .

  7. Kilobyte - Wikipedia

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    The international standard IEC 80000-13 uses the term "byte" to mean eight bits (1 B = 8 bit). Therefore, 1 kB = 8000 bit. Therefore, 1 kB = 8000 bit. One thousand kilobytes (1000 kB) is equal to one megabyte (1 MB), where 1 MB is one million bytes.

  8. Data-rate units - Wikipedia

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    The ISQ symbols for the bit and byte are bit and B, respectively.In the context of data-rate units, one byte consists of 8 bits, and is synonymous with the unit octet.The abbreviation bps is often used to mean bit/s, so that when a 1 Mbps connection is advertised, it usually means that the maximum achievable bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s (one million bits per second), which is 0.125 MB/s (megabyte per ...

  9. Orders of magnitude (bit rate) - Wikipedia

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    1.28×10 5 bit/s Audio data 128 kbit/s MP3 – 128,000 bit/s 1.92×10 5 bit/s Audio data Nearly CD quality [citation needed] for a file compressed in the MP3 format 10 6: Mbit/s 1.4112×10 6 bit/s Audio data CD audio (uncompressed, 16 bit samples × 44.1 kHz × 2 channels) 1.536×10 6 bit/s Networking 24 channels of telephone in the US, or a ...