What are Bytes?
Thank You Wikipedia for the following passage; Bytes (pronounced /ˈbaɪts/) are a basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science. In many computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing. There is no standard but bytes most often consists of eight bits. Bytes are an ordered collection of bits, with each bit denoting a single binary value of 1 or 0. The byte most often consists of 8 bits in modern systems; however, the size of a byte can vary and is generally determined by the underlying computer operating system or hardware. Historically, byte size was determined by the number of bits required to represent 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. Similarly to the terms bit, byte, and nibble, other terms of bit groups of varying sizes
