What is 1 byte?
It is a collection of eight bits which represent one character.
Each bit can have the value of 0 or 1, zero or one. A byte has 256
possible combinations of 0's and 1's. In most programming languages
and applications, these combinations are assigned values or
functions. In ASCII, 00101010 (42 in decimal) is the * symbol.
Number 189,(10111101 in ASCII) is ½ and 241 is ñ. There are other
uses and definitions of a byte, including how many bits are in
one.