Bytes
A Byte is a unit of data measurement which mainly consists of eight bits. A byte is a series of binary digits, which contain '0' or '1'. A byte is represented as upper-case 'B' whereas a bit is represented by small-case "b". The symbol of bit and byte is specified in IEC80000-13 and IEEE 1541. It is a term which is introduced in the year 1956 by Werner Buchholz.
A byte is a basic unit of storage capacity in the computer systems. It is also used by computers to represent the characters such as numbers, letters or symbols. A single byte can be used for indicating the 28 or 256 different values. These values start from 00000000 Binary to 11111111 Binary.
A nibble is a data unit which comes before the Byte. And, kilobyte comes after it.
The byte is used for measuring the size of memory and the speed of data transfer. Following are the examples of bytes in memory size:
- Kilobytes,
- Megabytes,
- Gigabytes,
- Terabytes, etc.
And, following are the examples of the speed of data transfer:
- Kilobytes per second,
- megabytes per second, etc.
Some programming languages also use the byte as the data type. For example, C, C++, and Java use the bytes as the data type.
Other data units to byte conversion
Following list shows the values of bytes in other data units:
| S.No. | Other Units | Values in bytes |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 Bit (b) equals to | 0.125 Bytes |
| 2. | 1 Kilobit (kbit) equals to | 125 Bytes |
| 3. | 1 Kibibit equals to | 128 Bytes |
| 4. | 1 Megabit (Mbit) equals to | 125000 Bytes |
| 5. | 1 Mebibit equals to | 131072 Bytes |
| 6. | 1 Gigabit (Gbit) equals to | 1.25e + 8 Bytes |
| 7. | 1 Gibibit is equals to | 1.342e+8 Bytes |
| 8. | 1 Terabit (Tbit) equals to | 1.25e+11 Bytes |
| 9. | 1 Tebibit equals to | 1.374e+11 Bytes |
| 10. | 1 Petabit equals to | 1.25e+14 Bytes |
| 11. | 1 Pebibit equals to | 1.407e+14 Bytes |
| 12. | 1 exabit equals to | 1.25e+17 Bytes |
| 13. | 1 Exbibit equals to | 144115188075855872 Bytes |
| 14. | 1 Yobibits equals to | 1.511e+23 Bytes |
| 15. | 1 Nibble equals to | 0.5 bytes |
| 16. | 1 Byte equals to | 1 Bytes |
| 17. | 1 Kilobyte (KB) equals to | 1000 Bytes |
| 18. | 1 Kibibyte equals to | 1024 Bytes |
| 19. | 1 Megabyte (MB) equals to | 1e+6 Bytes |
| 20. | 1 Mebibytes equals to | 1.049e+6 Bytes |
| 21. | 1 Gigabytes (GB) equals to | 1e+9 Bytes |
| 22. | 1 Gibibytes equals to | 1.074e+9 Bytes |
| 23. | 1 Terabytes (TB) equals to | 1e+12 Bytes |
| 24. | 1 Tebibytes equals to | 1.1e+12 Bytes |
| 25. | 1 Petabytes (PB) equals to | 1e+15 Bytes |
| 26. | 1 Pebibytes equals to | 1.126e+15 Bytes |
| 27. | 1 exabytes (EB) equals to | 1.0e+18 Bytes Bytes |
| 28. | 1 Exbibytes equals to | 1152921504606846976 Bytes |
| 29. | 1 Zettabytes equals to | 1.0e+21 Bytes |
| 30. | 1 Yottabytes equals to 1.0e+24 Bytes | |
| 31. | 1 Yobibytes equals to | 1.2089258196146e+24 Bytes |
Conversion of 1 byte into some common data-storage units
Following list shows the values of data units in 1 bytes:
| S.No. | 1 Bytes | Data units |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 Byte equals to | 8 bits (b) |
| 2. | 1 Byte equals to | 2 nibbles (nibble) |
| 3. | 1 Byte equals to | 1 bytes (B) |
| 4. | 1 Byte equals to | 125 Kilobits (Kbit) |
| 5. | 1 Byte equals to | 0.0078125 kibibits (kibit) |
| 6. | 1 Byte equals to | 8e-6 megabits (Mbit) |
| 7. | 1 Byte equals to | 7.6294e-6 mebibits (Mibit) |
| 8. | 1 Byte equals to | 8e-9 gigabits (Gbit) |
| 9. | 1 Byte equals to | 7.4506e-9 Gibibits (Gibit) |
| 10. | 1 Byte equals to | 8e-12 Terabits (Tbit) |
| 11. | 1 Byte equals to | 7.276e-12 Tebibits (Tibit) |
| 12. | 1 Byte equals to | 8e-15 Petabits (Pbit) |
| 13. | 1 Byte equals to | 7.1054e-15 Pebibits (Pibit) |
| 14. | 1 Byte equals to | 0.001 Kilobytes (Kb) |
| 15. | 1 Byte equals to | 0.000976563 kibibytes |
| 16. | 1 Byte equals to | 1e-6 Megabytes (Mb) |
| 17. | 1 Byte equals to | 9.5367e-7 Mebibytes |
| 18. | 1 Byte equals to | 1e-9 Gigabytes (Gb) |
| 19. | 1 Byte equals to | 9.3132e-10 Gibibytes |
| 20. | 1 Byte equals to | 1e-12 Terabytes (Tb) |
| 21. | 1 Byte equals to | 9.0949e-13 Tebibytes |
| 22. | 1 Byte equals to | 1e-15 Petabytes (Pb) |
| 23. | 1 Byte equals to | 8.8818e-16 Pebibytes |
