For example, the number 0 is represented by the bit 0, the number 1 is represented by the bit 1, and the number 2 is represented by the bits 10. A byte is a single digital word and represents 8 bits strung together. In the marketing world, modem manufacturers measure the throughput at bits per second so that a particular modem will seem fast. The confusion arises when a bit is mixed up with a byte and someone mistakenly thinks that a 56Kbps modem is transmitting data at 56,000 bytes per second instead of 56,000 bits per second. Hard drive sizes, for example, are measured in bytes, as in megabytes.
Bits are smaller than bytes.
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