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why 8-bits?
March 15th, 2011 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
A Byte is used to code a single character from the ASCII table. It was found that 7 bits are required to code any single ASCII character. However, computers use a binary (base-2) numeral system hence the size of the Byte was increased to the smallest power of 2 that could hold a single character which is 8.
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