There is no single answer to this question. A byte is universally defined as a tuple of 8 bits (sometimes bytes are also called octets, therefore).
However, a word commonly refers to the natural word for a given processor, that is the processor's preferred entity for arithmetic operations. The word is therefore typically defined by the processor's ALU width.
Typical 8, 16 or 32 bit processors have 8, 16 or 32 bit words (containing 1, 2 or 4 bytes), respectively. Other processors have another word size, such as 3 bytes per word, or 8.
In Windows programming, a word is often thought to refer to a 16 bit entity, mostly because the classic 32-bit Windows API makes frequent use of DWORD, a double-word, 32 bits or 4 bytes wide. However, these data types are not generally portable and are not recommended for use outside the specific context of this API.
Although a byte is typically 8-bits in length, there is no standard that actually specifies this. In general we say that a byte is the smallest unit of memory that may be addressed and since ANSI code pages use 7-bit encoding, a byte must be at least 7 bits in length. However, an 8-bit byte is notationally more convenient as we can represent any value it may hold using 2 hexadecimal digits, where each digit represents half-a-byte (commonly known as a nybble). In C++, all data types are measured in terms of whole bytes, however the standard does not specify the length of a byte other than it must be at least 8 bits. The char data type is the smallest data type and always has a length of 1 byte.
The length of a word is machine dependent but is typically some multiple of 8-bit bytes. For instance, a 32-bit system is said to have a word length of 4 bytes because that's the largest value that will fit in a single CPU register. A 64-bit system therefore has a word length of 8 bytes.
Some programming languages consider a word to be two bytes in length and a double word as being four bytes in length. However, these definitions are not universal and the actual lengths can vary according to the underlying architecture, even within the same language (different implementations may use different definitions).
4, since by definition a byte is made up of 8 bits.
4 bytes in 32 bits.
Eight bits are 1 byte. The word 'byte' was coined from the word "by eight" - 1 bit multiplied by 8.
Use data-type 'long long' or 'int64_t' (from inttypes.h)
Assuming a byte is 8 bits, then a 2 byte word is 16 bits. Therefore there are maximum of four 2 byte words in a 64-bit variable. Note that a byte is defined as being the smallest unit of addressable storage. As such there is no official standard that dictates its length; it is entirely hardware dependent. Some systems can address at the bit level, thus a byte would literally be just 1 bit in length. Although most systems today use an 8-bit byte, this is not always the case thus the term octet was defined to specifically mean an 8-bit byte.
A double byte is two bytes.
In microprocessors, from 8086 there is 20bit address bus. This address bus is so organised that reading a word(16bit string from 8086 to 80286 and 32bit string from 80386 to PIV) starting at even address is different from reading a word starting from odd address. suppose a word starts at 20000h address so it will placed in 20000h and 20001h respectively,then, this word is read by the microprocessor in 1 clock cycle i.e. the byte at 20000h and byte at 20001h are simultaneously read. Hence the word is read in 1 clock cycle. but had a word started at 20001h-- 1 byte in 20001h and the other byte in 20002h then the microprocessor is unable to read the word in 1 clock cycle. It takes 1 clock cycle to read the word from 20001h and another clock cycle to read the word from 20002h. Hence a word stored a odd location slows down the process of reading it. this entire process is referred as Even banking and Odd banking.
A Word is of 3 Types. 1. Half Word- It is 16 bit or 1 byte long 2. Double Word or DWORD- It is 32 Bit or 2 byte long 3. Quad Word or QWORD- it is 64 bit or 8 byte long
bit, nibble, byte, word
yes it can have
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one octet (8-bit byte or word) so 8 bytes = 1 word
The 8085 instruction set is classified into the following three groups according to word size: 1. One-word or 1-byte instructions 2. Two-word or 2-byte instructions 3. Three-word or 3-byte instructions
Eight bits are 1 byte. The word 'byte' was coined from the word "by eight" - 1 bit multiplied by 8.
Most of the functionality available for byte streams is also provided for character streams.
A unit of memory on a computer, equaling 8 bitsA byte is an 8 digit long binary number. Each digit in a byte is called a bit.
Bytes is a memory description in computer terminology, a computer language is something totally different than terminology. A byte is 8 bits long, a bit is a space for an on or off setting - 0 or 1. A byte has 8 of these in a row - 10100101 or 11111111 or 00000001. A byte can be used to count in binary from 0 to 255 (00000000 to 11111111).
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