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One byte It is a piece of information that is made up of a sequence from contiguous bits. In the beginning, the term byte was used when mentioning those 4-bit instructions that allowed the inclusion between one and sixteen bits per byte, although later the design from production it reduced the byte to 3-bit fields, a situation that made it possible to have between one and eight bits per byte. Finally, the size of a byte would be set at eight bits and declared a standard.

Meanwhile, the byte has various multiples such as: kilobyte (1,000 bytes), magabyte (1,000,000 bytes), gigabyte (1,000,000,000 bytes), and terabyte (1,000,000,000,000 bytes).

While, terabyte is a Unit from storage of information whose symbol is the TB and equals 1012 bytes. Meanwhile, the prefix tera comes from the Greek that refers monster or beast.

During the early computing The units were considered as multiples of 1024, because the computers worked on a binary basis, but at the wanting to name the quantities would lead to confusion, since the prefixes of the multiples had been adopted of

System International of MeasuresTherefore, to clarify the denominative complications between decimal and binary prefixes, the CEI, in 1998, defined new prefixes using the combination of the International System of Measurements with the word binary and thus the word terabyte was adopted when it refers to the quantity of 1012 bytes.

On the contrary, with quantities in binary base two it would be incorrect to use the prefix tera and therefore it was created instead the tebi, giving rise to the concept tebibyte which corresponds to 240 bytes.

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