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Saturday, 7 June 2008

Bit n Byte

ho ho

today i went to my in-law house and stumble on Harian Metro, Wednesday, 4th June 2008.
what caught my attention is the 'soal jawab IT' section.

(click on the Q for link to harian metro)

Saya ingin bertanya me ngenai maksud sebenar isti lah perkomputeran bit dan bait serta apakah perbeza annya.

the answer given: Komputer menggunakan format binari atau berasas kan dua nombor. Semuanya menggunakan digit binari sama ada 0 atau 1.

Satu bait mengandungi 1024 bit. Biasanya bait digu nakan untuk mengukur ka pasiti storan, misalnya cake ra keras atau saiz memori RAM.

Bit pula biasa digunakan untuk mengukur kadar pe mindahan, misalnya kelaju an bagi talian ADSL – 1 me gabit sesaat (1mbps)



i was like. hmmmm. since when 1 byte = 1024bit??????
its basic engineering. come on engineers out there. what is 1 byte???
you can wiki it if you like.

the simple answer is



1 byte = 8 bit
i think the writer got confused with this

1kilobyte = 1024bit 

or by IEEE definition, 1kikibyte = 1024bit

:)

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