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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: IBM - Byte data types. Oct 24, 2026
Add new Web site: Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Bits, Bytes and Data Types. Nov 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Engineering LibreTexts - More bits and bytes. Feb 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Stanford University - Bits and Bytes. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - How do computers represent data? Dec 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Computer Hope - Byte. Aug 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Story of Mathematics - Byte. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Lifewire - How Do Bits, Bytes, Megabytes, Megabits, and Gigabits Differ? May 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - How bits and bytes work. Sep 19, 2022
Added material about the amount of bits in a byte. Mar 25, 2021
Added material about the differing values for prefixes. Mar 02, 2016
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Computer - How Bits and Bytes Work. Jun 06, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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