Question
Physics Question on Semiconductor electronics: materials, devices and simple circuits
8 bits form
1 byte
1 diction
1 nibble
1 binary
1 byte
Solution
Bits and bytes are related to binary number system.
The number system with base (or radix) 2 is known as the binary number system. Only two symbols are used to represent number in this system and these are 0 and 1.
These are known as bits. This system has the minimum base (0 is not possible and 1 is not useful).
It is a positional system that is every position is assigned a specific weight. In the binary number system, a group of four bits is known as a nibble, and a group of eight bits is known as a byte.
Note : Some of the other commonly used number systems are octal and hexadecimal point. These number systems are widely used in digital systems like microprocessors, logic circuits, computers etc.