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A unit of measurement in computer science for the size of digital data. A byte usually consists of eight bits and can represent one character, such as a letter or a number.
Diese Bilddatei ist 2 Megabyte groß.
This image file is 2 megabytes in size.
Although 'Byte' (byte) is a technical term from computer science, it is used very frequently in everyday life when talking about computers, smartphones, or the internet. Everyone who uses digital devices understands and uses this word.
Wie viele Byte hat diese Datei?
How many bytes does this file have?
'Byte' (byte) is almost always combined with prefixes for large numbers, such as 'Kilo-', 'Mega-', 'Giga-', or 'Tera-'. A single byte is a very small unit, so people usually talk about larger amounts of data.
Mein neuer Laptop hat eine Festplatte mit einem Terabyte Speicherplatz.
My new laptop has a hard drive with one terabyte of storage space.
To state a file size, you often use the structure '[number] [unit] groß sein' (to be [number] [unit] in size) or '[number] [unit] haben' (to have [number] [unit]). The unit always comes after the number.
Das Dokument ist nur wenige Kilobyte groß.
The document is only a few kilobytes in size.
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'das Bit' and 'das Byte' both belong to the world of digital data and sound similar. That is why they are easy to confuse. A bit is the smallest unit of information and can have only two states, for example 0 or 1. A byte is larger and usually consists of eight bits. For file sizes, storage space, or text characters, you usually use byte or larger units such as kilobyte and megabyte. A simple way to remember it is: bits are the small building blocks; bytes are groups of several bits.
Für einen Buchstaben braucht der Computer oft ein Byte Speicherplatz.
For one letter, the computer often needs one byte of storage space.
Ein Bit kann in einem Computer nur den Wert 0 oder 1 haben.
In a computer, a bit can only have the value 0 or 1.