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Bytes and Bobs
Making sense of all these silly and incomprehensible number for you.

A byte is generally used as a unit of storage measurement within computers, regardless of what type of data is being stored. This means that is is often used in an array of programming languages. Want to find out more of the person who coined/created the idea of a byte, then read the following extract;

The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. Originally it was described as one to six bits; typical I/O equipment of the period used six-bit units. The move to an eight-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/360. The word was coined by mutating the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit.

Below is a conversation table which allows the easier classification of what exactly a byte is, in comparison to the larger and somewhat more common larger units such as Giga Bytes. Of course this can lead to somewhat of a confused newer user; what is larger 1.5 MB or 1500 KB? They are both basically the same size, think of it somewhat like CM and MM, there is 10 MM in 1 CM. Well here there are 8 Bits in 1 Bytes

1 Bytes;

Bits 8
Bytes 1
KiloBits 0.0078125
KiloBytes 0.0009765625
MegaBits 7.62939453125e-06
MegaBytes 9.5367431640625e-07
GigaBits 7.45058059692383e-09
GigaBytes 9.31322574615479e-10

Don't forget that if you want to try out some of these conversions yourself then check out this website which allows you to get a better understanding of converting one measurement to another.