eight bits

Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a character of text in the computer, which depended on computer hardware architecture; but today computer hardware architecture almost always means eight bits – that is, an octet.

8-bit unit of memory

A byte is the smallest addressable unit of memory (in most definitions), an octet is 8-bit unit of memory.

A group of eight bits

A group of eight bits is one byte or octet.

'byte'

Because the term 'octet' denotes to 8 bits, whereas 'byte' refers to an undefined group of bits (usually 8 bits, but 6,7,or 10 on some computer architectures.)

octets

Data is also commonly transported in 8-bit sets called 'bytes,' but more properly called 'octets.'

8 bits () one byte

Specifically, an octet is 8 bits (one byte), with a resulting range of [0-255].

a sequence of 8 bits

A byte (or octet) is a sequence of 8 bits.

8 bits, which can be used to represent a single letter, number or punctuation mark, or a number between 0 and 255, or anything else that can have up to 256 values

A byte or octet is 8 bits, which can be used to represent a single letter, number or punctuation mark, or a number between 0 and 255, or anything else that can have up to 256 values.

8-bit bytes

Binary information in modern computers is represented as groups of 8-bit bytes, or 'octets' as they are sometimes called.

the same thing ( ) 8 bits of data

An ‘octet‘ and a ‘byte’ are essentially the same thing ( 8 bits of data ).

byte-per-byte identical to the one sent

Octet allows for the transfer of arbitrary raw 8-bit bytes, with the received file resulting byte-per-byte identical to the one sent.

for a group of 8 bits in the context of communications

But ‘octet’ is the term traditionally used for a group of 8 bits in the context of communications.

two hexadecimal digits

A full byte (octet) is represented by two hexadecimal digits; therefore, octet is common to display a byte of information as two nibbles.

to a sequence of eight bits, which are the building blocks of binary data

The term “octet” refers to a sequence of eight bits, which are the building blocks of binary data.

another way of saying 8-bits

Octet and Byte is simply another way of saying 8-bits.

to ‘[e]ight contiguous bits

An ‘octet’ corresponds to ‘[e]ight contiguous bits; an eight bits byte.

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The smallest addressable unit of data is usually a group of bits called a byte (usually an octet, which is 8 bits).

the numeric 8-bit types

Thus, to separate the validation of the two, the term Byte or Octet means the numeric 8-bit types, and the term Char means the single character string types.

Numeric values

Numeric values are in bytes (octets).

In computing from the Latin root octo

In computing, if a bit is still called a bit, a byte is called an octet (from the Latin root octo, meaning '8').