Does anyone know what is BIT and BITE?

Question

What is BIT and BITE and what are the differences?

Thanks.

Answer 1

A bit is a 0 or 1, is a logic state in a computer chip and the basic alphabet for computer systems. It physically means 'voltage off' or 'voltage on' in electronics.  From this you have a byte which is 8 bits, and kilobytes which is 1024 bytes, or 1024 times 8 bits. It goes up in multiples of 1024 and so on because it's base 2, binary, not decimal.

Answer 2

Did you mean "Byte"?

A bit is a single unit of data. A byte is 8 bits.

Answer 3

OR........  

Push a button and activate the 'Built In Test' (BIT) to get a 'Go/NoGo' idiot light.  The circuitry which performs this testing is called 'Built In Test Equipment' (BITE).

The Military is real big on this stuff ☺

HTH,

Doug

Answer 4

The word "byte" has two closely related meanings:

   1. A contiguous sequence of a fixed number of bits (binary digits). The use of a byte to mean 8 bits has become nearly ubiquitous.

   2. A contiguous sequence of bits within a binary computer that comprises the smallest addressable sub-field of the computer's natural word-size. That is, the smallest unit of binary data on which meaningful computation, or natural data boundaries, could be applied.

Originally, a byte was a small group of bits of a size convenient for data such as a single character from a Western character set. Its size was generally determined by the number of possible characters in the supported character set and was chosen to be a divisor of the computer's word size; historically, bytes have ranged from five to twelve bits. The term octet is widely used as a more precise synonym where ambiguity is undesirable (for example, in protocol definitions).

A bit is a binary digit, taking a value of either 0 or 1.

Answer 5

A bit is a 1 or a 0, like binary code. A byte consists of 8 bytes, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes (8000 bits) and so on. A byte simply contains more information.