Assertion: byte | /r/HasProperty | the number of bits
Facets:
value: historically
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.
text: In origin byte is simply a respelling of bite, a byte being the number of bits that a computer can take at one bite, so to speak.
text: In origin byte is simply a respelling of bite, a byte being the number of bits that a computer can take at one bite, so to speak.
text: In origin byte is simply a respelling of bite, a byte being the number of bits that a computer can take at one bite, so to speak.
text: Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a character of text in the computer, which depended on computer hardware architecture; but today it almost always means eight bits –