A single bit can be either 0 or 1.
A single bit can be either 0 or 1.
As of 2011 the maximum capacity of a computer is 64 bit.
In general actual capacity is bit less than the nominal capacity of any form
16 bit
The storage capacity of a register is determined by the architecture. Thus they are 32 bits long on a 32-bit system and 64 bits long on a 64-bit system.
Faster access time, greater cost per bit; greater capacity, smaller cost per bit; greater capacity, slower access time. As a general rule (but there are exceptions) the greater the capacity of a memory the longer the access time. For a higher cost the access time of a given capacity memory can usually be shortened some. As a general rule (but there are exceptions) the greater the capacity of a memory the total memory cost increases, but the memory cost per bit decreases.
quite a bit
seats 5 but it's a bit cramped.
half a million 6 bit characters
IBM 350, 5 million characters (6-bit).
The smallest unit of measurement used to describe the storage capacity of a computer is called a bit. It is a binary digit that can represent either a 0 or a 1, and is the basic building block of all digital data.
The maximum capacity of a 16-bit memory is 2^16 bits, which equals 65,536 bits. When converted to bytes, this is 65,536 bits divided by 8 bits per byte, resulting in 8,192 bytes or 8 kilobytes (KB). Thus, a 16-bit memory can store a maximum of 8 KB of data.