Editing Byte (section)

=== Practical examples ===
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|rowspan="1"|bit
|a [[Boolean data type|Boolean]] variable indicating true (1) or false (0).
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|rowspan="1"|byte
|a [[Basic Latin (Unicode block)|basic Latin]] character.
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|rowspan="2"|kilobyte
|text of "[[Jabberwocky]]"<!-- text is widely available, easy to count, no source needed-->
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|a typical [[favicon]]
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|rowspan="1"|megabyte
|text of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''<ref>Allison Dexter, "How Many Words are in Harry Potter?", [https://wordcounter.io/blog/how-many-words-are-in-harry-potter/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125205432/https://wordcounter.io/blog/how-many-words-are-in-harry-potter/|date=2021-01-25}}; shows {{val|190,637}} words</ref>
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|rowspan="2"|gigabyte
|about half an hour of [[DVD-Video|DVD]] video<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-gigabytes.html |title=Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes Terabytes (Stanford University) |access-date=2020-12-12 |archive-date=2020-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108095242/https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-gigabytes.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|[[CD]]-quality uncompressed audio of ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]''
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|rowspan="2"|terabyte
|the largest consumer hard drive in 2007<ref name="Hitachi1st">{{cite news |title=Hitachi Introduces 1-Terabyte Hard Drive |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/128400/article.html |website=[[PC World|www.pcworld.com]] |last=Perenson |first=Melissa J. |date=4 January 2007 |access-date=5 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024011417/http://www.pcworld.com/article/128400/article.html |archive-date=24 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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||75 hours of video, encoded at 30 Mbit/second
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|petabyte
|{{val|2000}} years of [[MP3]]-encoded music<ref name="computerweekly.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/What-does-a-petabyte-look-like|title=What does a petabyte look like?|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128072952/http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/What-does-a-petabyte-look-like|archive-date=28 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|rowspan="1"|exabyte
|global monthly [[Internet traffic]] in 2004<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/139885/article.html|title=Internet Could Max Out in 2 Years, Study Says|author=Gross|first=Grant|date=24 November 2007|website=[[PC World]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126041511/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139885-pg,1/article.html|archive-date=26 November 2007|url-status=live|access-date=28 November 2007}}</ref>
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|zettabyte
|global yearly Internet traffic in 2016 (known as the ''[[Zettabyte Era]]'')<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-09|title=The Zettabyte Era Officially Begins (How Much is That?)|url=https://blogs.cisco.com/sp/the-zettabyte-era-officially-begins-how-much-is-that|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Cisco Blogs|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802021532/https://blogs.cisco.com/sp/the-zettabyte-era-officially-begins-how-much-is-that|url-status=live}}</ref>
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