Bit (Bit)
The minimum storage unit of the computer, usually 0 or 1. General languages provide multi-bit memory.
eg 2'b01 ---- 2: 2bit, b: binary, 01: i.e., the value
Byte (Byte)
A byte contains 8 bits of data, thus a total of 256 different values.
Common everyday KB (1024 Byte), MB (1024 * 1024 Byte), GB (2 ^ 30), TB (2 ^ 40) are accordingly from.
Word (Word)
Common size processor for processing data, also called register size, a common 32bit, 64bit, 32, 64 resulting system.
ASCIIS code:
1 letters (case insensitive) = 1 byte space
Chinese characters 1 = 2 bytes of space
A one byte ASCII code =
UTF-8 encoding:
1 = 1 byte English characters
English punctuation = 1 byte
A Chinese (Traditional including) = 3 bytes
Chinese punctuation 3 bytes =
Unicode encoding:
1 = 2 bytes English characters
English punctuation 2 bytes =
A Chinese (Traditional including) 2 bytes =
Chinese punctuation 2 bytes =