Bits And Bytes

Computers cannot understand human language. It can only understand the binary number system, 0 and 1. Off is 0 and On is 1. These digits are known as bits. BIT is a contraction of the words Binary dIgiT.  In order for the computer to save information it needs to save it in Bytes. BYTE is a contraction of the words BinaY digiTs Eight. This means that one BYTE consists of eight bits. In Terms of storage space a byte can be considered to be the size of a character.



Kilobyte - 1,000 bytes / 1,000 characters of information.
Megabyte - 1,000,000 bytes / 1 Million of characters of information.
Gigabyte - 1 Billion bytes / 1 Billion of characters of information.
Terabyte -  1 Trillion bytes / 1 Trillion of characters of information.