What exactly is a byte?

What is octet in networking?

An octect is a byte with exactly 8 bits.

What is difference between a 'byte' and a 'byte'?

I believe you meant difference between a bit and a byte. A byte is 8 bits.

How many nibbles are in a byte?

There are two nibbles in a byte.

How bits are in a byte?

Eight bits are in one byte

How big is a pectrol byte?

1024 amos byte = 1 pectrol byte

Which is greater byte or bit?

Byte, since there are 8 bits in every byte

What is the highest byte?

Yotto Byte

What is byte mega byte and giga byte?

they are amounts of unit describing computer storage

What are the benefits of byte as a datatype?

A byte is the smallest unit of addressable storage. Although a bit is smaller than a byte, a single bit cannot be addressed directly; we always deal with groups of bits and a byte is the smallest group of bits that can be physically addressed. However, once we have addressed a byte, we can then examine the individual bits within it using the bitwise logic operators (AND, OR, NOT and XOR). On most systems a byte is exactly 8 bits in length. The reason for this is simply that we can represent any 8-bit value using a convenient two-digit hexadecimal notation, where each hex digit represents exactly 4-bits (often called a nybble because it is half-a-byte). Thus an 8-bit byte can be represented by any hexadecimal value in the range 0x00 to 0xff (or 0 to 255 decimal). (Some systems use odd-size bytes, such as a 9-bit byte. For this we typically use 3-digit octal notation because an octal digit represents exactly 3 bits. Such systems are rare, but we sometimes come across other odd-sized bytes, especially in older data transfer systems such as dot-matrix printers which utilised a 7-bit byte. However, in modern architecture, we can safely say that a byte is always at least 8 bits long.) Not all programming languages utilise a byte data type as such. C, for instance, doesn't have a built in byte data type but it does have a char data type which is always 1 byte in length. There's no real reason why there isn't a byte data type in C, but when all data types are measured in terms of bytes it was probably deemed unnecessary to say that a byte is 1 byte in length. Although a char is typically used to encode a single character from a character set (and has built in overloads specific to that purpose), the encoding is no less numeric than a byte would be, so there was no real need for a separate byte data type. Although a single byte can represent any decimal value in the range 0 to 255, it is more correct to say that a single byte can represent any one of 256 unique abstractions. Whether it is a single character from a character set, an unsigned value in the range 0 to 256, or a signed value in the range -128 to +127, these are merely abstractions. How abstractions are interpreted is entirely down to the programmer and/or the programming language.

Is a bit a byte?

8 bits are a byte

How many nibbles are there in a byte?

2 nibbles are in one byte

How many bits in an octet or byte?

An octet is 8 bits, which forms a byte.