Department of Computer Scien

ce and Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

HANEL

INSIDE THE COMPUTER Important Terminology

‰The unit of data size

¾Bit

: a binary digit that can have the value 0 or 1

¾Byte

: 8 bits

¾Nibble

: half of a bye, or 4 bits

¾Word

: two bytes, or 16 bits

‰The terms used to describe amounts of memory in IBM PCs and compatibles

¾Kilobyte

(K): 2

10 bytes

¾Megabyte

(M) : 2

20 bytes, over 1 million

¾Gigabyte

(G) : 2

30 bytes, over 1 billion

¾Terabyte

(T) : 2

40 bytes, over 1 trillion