Assertion: variable's byte | /r/HasProperty | 8 bits
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text: Instead, data is aligned in groups of a fixed number of bits, usually 1 byte (8 bits).
text: For example, with one byte (8 bits) per character, one can encode 256 possible characters; in order to encode more than 256 characters, the obvious choice would be to use two or more bytes per encoding unit, two bytes (16 bits) would allow 65,536 possible characters, but such a change would break compatibility with existing systems and therefore might not be feasible at all.
text: For example, the byte data type requires 1 byte = 8 bits.