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Units of information

A unit of information is any unit of measure of digital data size. In digital computing, a unit of information is used to describe the capacity of a digital data storage device. In telecommunications, a unit of information is used to describe the throughput of a communication channel. In information theory, a unit of information is used to measure…

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Units derived from bit

CharacterOctetSignedIEEE 1541-2002IEC 80000-13
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Size examples

SectorHard disk driveAdvanced FormatUNIXFilesystems
15 related topics

Information theory

Ralph HartleyClaude ShannonLogarithmPositiveShannon
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Obsolete and unusual units

IBMBCD alphamericsOctadOctadeSlab
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Information theory

Units derived from bit

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Units of information

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples0
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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Important terminology

unit information used size byte bits data units hardware word bytes base prefixes storage sizes describe bit nibble metric two

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