Assertion: byte's bit | /r/HasProperty | octet
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text: The correct term for something that holds exactly 8 bits is an octet.
text: For the purpose of this article, a byte is a group of 8 bits (octet), a nibble is a group of four bits.
text: The committee considered an eight-bit code, since eight bits (octets) would allow two four-bit patterns to efficiently encode two digits with binary-coded decimal.
text: The MD5 algorithm is specified for messages consisting of any number of bits; it is not limited to multiples of eight bits (octets, bytes).