Understanding Digital Information: Bits, Nibbles, Bytes, Megabytes, and Gigabytes, Quizzes of Computer Science

Definitions for various units of digital information, including bits, nibbles, bytes, megabytes, and gigabytes. A bit is the basic unit of information, a nibble is a four-bit aggregation, a byte is a unit of digital information consisting of eight bits, and megabytes and gigabytes are multiples of the byte.

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nibble

In computing, a nibble is a four-bit aggregation.

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byte

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The byte is a unit of digital information in computing that

most commonly consists of eight bits.

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megabyte

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The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital

information storage

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gigabyte

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a unit of information equal to one billion