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What needs to be undestood is that all data is represented by numbers in binary form. Each binary digit (a single 1 or 0) is called a bit, and 1 byte is 8 bits, the amount needed to represent any number between 0 and 255. Therefore 1 byte is equivalent to 1 letter, number or punctuation character.

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