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Byte

Programming På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

8 bits. The base unit for memory, storage and data transfer.

Enough to represent one ASCII character or a number 0-255. Larger units: KB (1024 bytes), MB, GB, TB. Worth knowing: commercially "KB" has long meant 1000, technically it's 1024 — hence the KiB/MiB/GiB prefixes that force the issue.

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