• The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte...
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  • Peter Martins Octet (computing), a grouping of eight bits Byte, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits Octet stream, alternative...
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  • Byte (redirect from Byte (computing))
    usually uses bytes at the end of a frame. Data Data hierarchy Nibble Octet (computing) Primitive data type Tryte Word (computer architecture) The term syllable...
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  • Bitstream (redirect from Octet stream)
    each byte is an 8-bit quantity, and so the term octet stream is sometimes used interchangeably. An octet may be encoded as a sequence of 8 bits in multiple...
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    Nibble (redirect from Semi-octet)
    In computing, a nibble, also spelled nybble to match byte, is a unit of information that is an aggregation of four-bits; half of a byte/octet. The unit...
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  • Bit (redirect from Bit (computing))
    The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a...
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  • architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet). Also, 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)...
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  • 8-bit octets, every four characters of Base64-encoded text (4 sextets = 4 × 6 = 24 bits) represents three octets of unencoded text or data (3 octets = 3 × 8...
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  • UUIDs in the Network Computing System (NCS). Later, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) used UUIDs for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The...
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  • header and data (measured in octets). As IPv6 has larger addresses and a different header layout, the method used to compute the checksum is changed accordingly:: §8...
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  • 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...
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  • free dictionary. 8-bit computing is computing with 8-bit addresses or units of data. 8-bit may also refer to: Octet (computing), a unit of information...
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  • is the 9th octet of 20. In the IPv6 header, it is the 8th octet of 40. The maximum TTL value is 255, the maximum value of a single octet. A recommended...
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  • ASN.1 (redirect from Octet encoding rules)
    6e 79 62 6f 64 79 20 74 68 65 72 65 3f This format is octet-aligned. In this case, each octet is padded individually with null bits on their unused most...
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  • data. Ethernet transmits data with the most-significant octet (byte) first; within each octet, however, the least-significant bit is transmitted first...
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    C1 U+0080 128 0302 0200 Padding Character PAD U+0081 129 0302 0201 High Octet Preset HOP U+0082 130 0302 0202 Break Permitted Here BPH U+0083 131 0302 0203...
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    uniqueness. The size of an Ethernet MAC address is six octets. The three most significant octets are reserved to identify NIC manufacturers. These manufacturers...
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  • value of 4 means 24 octets. Although the size is measured in 4-octet units, the length of this header needs to be a multiple of 8 octets if carried in an...
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  • by an unsigned 8-bit byte (the most common size of byte, also called an octet), the smallest common variable size used in high level programming languages...
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  • (up to some maximum digit size), typically occupying two digits per byte (octet). Different CPUs support different integral data types. Typically, hardware...
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    until they have achieved a valence shell electron configuration with a full octet of (8) electrons, hydrogen instead obeys the duplet rule, forming one bond...
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  • Options are octet strings of varying length. This is called Type–length–value encoding. The first octet is the option code, the second octet is the number...
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  • 11111111. Based on the binary mask, it can be seen that the first three sets (octets) must match the given binary network address exactly (11000000.00000000...
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  • Hextet (redirect from Quibble (computing))
    for hexadecimal in computing. This usage of hex to mean 16 is also in line with the similar IEEE 1754 term hexlet indicating 16 octets. Although the word...
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  • memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 128 bits (16 octets) wide. Also, 128-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic...
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  • The College of Computing, Data Science, and Society is the newest of the 15 colleges at the University of California, Berkeley and has three academic...
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  • Scrolls (video game), a video game by Mojang The Scrolls, an American musical octet This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Scroll...
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  • memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 18 bits (2.25 octets) wide. Also, 18-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit...
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  • domain name labels from using any character that is representable by an octet, hostnames use a preferred format and character set. The characters allowed...
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  • as The Father of ASCII. In 2000, Bemer claimed to have proposed the term octet (rather than Werner Buchholz' byte) while heading software development at...
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