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bit

The smallest possible unit of memory. A bit can store only two different values - a "0" or a "1". If a bit could store only one possible value, it would not store any information at all, because each bit would look identical. However, a bit storing one of two possible values can be combined with lots of other bits to store huge quantities of information. The term for a group of eight bits, a common occurrence, is called a byte.

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