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To: TheOldLady

I believe that you ment BITS and not BYTES since each BYTE which represents one character (letter, digit, or binary number) consists of 8 BITS to form the character plus 1 or more additional PARITY BIT(s) to help protect the individual BYTE from corruption.


37 posted on 10/24/2012 5:57:51 PM PDT by dglang
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To: dglang

Ok, 8 trillion bits then. Thanks!


39 posted on 10/24/2012 6:12:54 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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