Byte vs Gibibyte - What's the difference?
byte | gibibyte |
(computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
(computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
As nouns the difference between byte and gibibyte
is that byte is a byte, small binary data unit while gibibyte is gibibyte (230 bytes).byte
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia byte)- The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.