#Bits and Bytes.

1) What is Digit.

Any number is consisdered to be a digit, so the numbers 56, 100, 109, 898641271 are all consisdered digits.

2. Normal, counting numbers used in everday life are based on what sequence of numbers?

+1 ?

3) Where does the word bit origniate from?

The word bit orginates from

4) Binary numbers don't use base 10. What base do they use? What digits are available in base 2?

5) What is a byte?

A byte is a unit of digital information in computerting and telecommunications that most commonluy consists of eight bits. Historically, a byte was only the number of bits used to encode s single character of text in a computer and this is the reason the basic addressable element in many computer architectures.

6) How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes.