What can be stored in a byte?

Bytes

“Byte” – unit of information storage.
A document, an image, a movie .. how many bytes?
1 byte is enough to hold about 1 typed character, e.g. ‘b’ or ‘X’ or ‘$’
All storage is measured in bytes, despite being very different hardware.
Kilobyte, KB, about 1 thousand bytes.
Megabyte, MB, about 1 million bytes.

How much can a byte hold?

Eight bits are called a byte. One byte character sets can contain 256 characters. The current standard, though, is Unicode which uses two bytes to represent all characters in all writing systems in the world in a single set.

What can you do with 1 byte?

For four bits there are values. A byte consists of 8 bits…., writing code for 40+ years.

The current inning number for a baseball game.
The current month of the year.
The number of bears whose homes you are invading.
The number of coins to return in change.
Any of the individual printed letters in Ulysses.

Is a character 1 byte?

Therefore, each character can be 8 bits (1 byte), 16 bits (2 bytes), 24 bits (3 bytes), or 32 bits (4 bytes). Likewise, UTF-16 is based on 16-bit code units. Therefore, each character can be 16 bits (2 bytes) or 32 bits (4 bytes). The first 128 Unicode code points are encoded as 1 byte in UTF-8.

What memory unit can hold 1000 bytes?

Kilobyte
Kilobyte or KB One kilobyte (KB) is a collection of about 1000 bytes. A page of ordinary Roman alphabetic text takes about 2 kilobytes to store (about one byte per letter). A typical short email would also take up just 1 or 2 kilobytes.

What is the largest number that can be represented in a byte?

The maximum decimal number that can be represented with 1 byte is 255 or 11111111. An 8-bit word greatly restricts the range of numbers that can be accommodated. But this is usually overcome by using larger words. With 8 bits, the maximum number of values is 256 or 0 through 255.

Why is byte to 127?

I can see that the highest value is 127 , because it’s 01111111 in binary, but how does one represent -128 with only 8 bits, one of which is used for the sign? Positive 128 would already be 8-bit, i.e. 10000000 , and then you would need a 9th bit to represent the negative sign.

Can a byte be all zeros?

A byte is a group of 8 bits. A bit is the most basic unit and can be either 1 or 0. A byte is not just 8 values between 0 and 1, but 256 (28) different combinations (rather permutations) ranging from 00000000 via e.g. 01010101 to 11111111 . Thus, one byte can represent a decimal number between 0(00) and 255.

Why is a character 1 byte?

the (binary) representation of a char (in standard character set) can fit into 1 byte. At the time of the primary development of C , the most commonly available standards were ASCII and EBCDIC which needed 7 and 8 bit encoding, respectively. So, 1 byte was sufficient to represent the whole character set.