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One byte of RAM can hold up to one byte of data. This is equivalent to one 8-bit (ASCII) character, such as a keyboard letter, number, or symbol.
The size of a byte is typically hardware dependent, but the modern standard is eight bits. 8 bits can store 255 different values and this is enough to store one keyboard character. Therefore one byte can store one character of a text message.
A byte is the smallest unit of storage. Mostly anything you do can take up a byte.
8 bits in one byte
One byte of information is … one byte … regardless of where it is stored.
One byte consists of 8 bits and can represent 256 different values, ranging from 0 to 255. It is typically used to encode a single character in text, such as a letter or a number, in many character encoding systems. In broader terms, a byte serves as a fundamental unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications.
a character/byte as defined in the C programming language is one byte (8 bits). A string can be as short as one byte and can be as long as the physical memory limits can contain it.
In computers, a bit is a single digit of binary code. It is also one eighth (1/8) of a byte. This is because there are eight binary digits to make any letter of the alphabet, making one byte one single letter of text.
One byte of data is also referred to as an "octet." This term is often used in networking and computer science to specify a unit of digital information that consists of eight bits. Each byte can represent 256 different values, which is commonly used to encode a character in text.
It isn't clear how you would measure a text message in minutes. Normally, text messages have a length in characters - each character is probably 1 or 2 bytes. A byte, of course, is one millionth of a MB.
byte
Eight bits are in one byte