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It is a collection of eight bits which represent one character. Each bit can have the value of 0 or 1, zero or one. A byte has 256 possible combinations of 0's and 1's. In most programming languages and applications, these combinations are assigned values or functions. In ASCII, 00101010 (42 in decimal) is the * symbol. Number 189,(10111101 in ASCII) is ½ and 241 is ñ. There are other uses and definitions of a byte, including how many bits are in one.

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