Re: [SURVPC] Bits and bytes

[Jos Gielen]

Or Botton wrote:
> If I want to convert a number in MegaBits to MegaBytes, do I need to
> divide the Bits by 8?
>
> For example, 4MegaBits equal 0.5MegaBytes?
>
>                                        Or Botton
for all practical purposes: yes. Theoratically: no
"byte" is just a name for a unit of information. Today we just happen to
use only 8 bit bytes but bytes can have other lenghts as well.

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