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Units of measurement of data
A computer is mainly made up of integrated
circuits, commonly known as chips. These
components translate the electrical pulses of
the information sent by the user.
Measure Equalization
BIT Electric pulse simpler than a character.
Each group of 8 bits or 8 electric pulses, represented by a
BYTE letter, number, a character
or a blank space.
KILOBYTE (KB, KBYTE) 1,024 BYTES.
MEGABYTE (MB) 1,048,576 BYTES.
GIGABYTE (GB, GBYTE) 1,073,741,824 BYTES.
