Byte

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A byte is commonly used as a unit for the size of computer storage, and in many programming languages it is also a data type belonging to the integer types. The practical meaning of a byte is that it can represent a single ASCII character. Therefore, even today, when multiple bytes are used as a single word, it is used as the memory address unit on most computer hardware.