Byte

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• A unit of measure consisting of eight bits that is the basic measurement of most computer data as multiples of the byte value. One million bytes are equivalent to a "megabyte" while one billion bytes is a "gigabyte." ^[1]
• Eight bits. ^[2]
• A computer word or a sequence of bits used as one unit, usually eight bits long. In word processing, a single character, such as a letter, is usually one byte in size. ^[3]
• Eight bits. The ASCII standard to define letters, numbers and characters – maximum of 256. KB – Kilo-bytes, a thousand bytes (actually 2 10 or 1024 bytes). MB – Megabytes, a million bytes, (actually 2 20 or 1,024 KB or 1,048,576 bytes) GB – Gigabytes, a billion bytes (actually 2 30 or 1024 MB or 1,073,741,824 bytes). ^[4]
• Eight bits. A byte is a collection of bits used by computers to represent a character (i.e., "a", "1", or "&"). A "megabyte" is one million bytes or eight million bits or a "gigabyte" is one billion bytes or eight billion bits. 1 gigabyte = 1,000 megabytes. 1 terabyte = 1,000 gigabytes. ^[5]
• Standard unit of measure for computer storage. A byte is 8 bits (binary digits) and corresponds to about 1 English character.

See also

• Bit
• Byte
• KB - kilobyte
• MB - megabyte
• GB - gigabyte
• TB - terabyte
• PB - petabyte
• EB - exabyte

1. ^[1] Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary. ↩
2. ^[2] Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005). ↩
3. ^[3] Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005). ↩
4. ^[4] American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml ↩
5. ^[5] Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms ↩