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BIT	a bit can only have 2 values these are represented in 1 and 0
NIBBLE	a nibble is four binary digits or half of an eight-bit byte. A nibble can be conveniently represented by one hexadecimal digit.
BYTE	a unit of storage capable of holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to 8 bits.
KILOBYTE	a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, but it is often used loosely as a synonym for 1,000 bytes.
MEGABYTE	The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. one megabyte is one million bytes of information.
GIGABYTE	A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity that is roughly equivalent to 1 billion bytes.
TERABYTE	A terabyte (TB) is a measure of computer storage capacity approximately a trillion bytes.A terabyte is more precisely defined as 1,024 gigabytes
CHARACTER SET	A defined list of characters recognized by the computer hardware and software. Each character is represented by a number.
ASCII	ASCII is a code for representing characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127.. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer datafrom one computer to another.
UNICODE	Unicode can be shown by different character encodings. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII character

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	Created by Sam Stott about 9 years ago