01 October 2013

Bits and Bytes

This is for the webmasters and website owners, as well as the folk working at ISP call centres, who don't seem to know their bits from their bytes.

A bit is not a byte

I'll repeat, a bit is not a byte. A bit (b) is one binary digit (0 or 1). A byte (B) represents 8 bits. A kilobyte unit is represented as kB and there are 1024 bytes to a kilobyte. There are 1024 kilobytes to a megabyte (MB). Please get it right!