Which of these units is the largest?
AnswerTerabyte
Going up by thousands: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, then terabyte.
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The basics
A gigabyte is about a thousand of which unit?
AnswerMegabytes
Each step up the scale is about a thousand times bigger, so a gigabyte is about 1,000 megabytes.
Going deeper
How many different values can a single 8-bit byte represent?
Answer256
Eight bits allow 2^8 = 256 combinations, usually numbered 0 to 255.
What is a group of four bits commonly called?
AnswerA nibble
Four bits make a nibble, half a byte, which can be written as one hexadecimal digit.
Internet speeds written as 'Mbps' are measured in what?
AnswerMegabits per second
The lowercase b means bits, so 100 Mbps is about 12.5 megabytes per second.
Expert level
Who coined the term 'byte' while working at IBM in 1956?
AnswerWerner Buchholz
Werner Buchholz coined 'byte', deliberately respelling 'bite' so it would not be confused with 'bit'.
In the UTF-8 text encoding, a single character takes between 1 and how many bytes?
Answer4
UTF-8 uses 1 byte for basic ASCII characters and up to 4 bytes for other characters, like many emoji.
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