info
Units of information
These definitions use byte as the base unit, and therefore may be thought of as "storage centric" as opposed to information centric:
or physics centric:
For example in physics a nat is unitless, where in these definitions it is a derived unit of byte.
Type members
Classlikes
Standard binary prefixes
Standard binary prefixes
Binary prefixes used for computing storage
Standard SI base-10 prefixes are defined in coulomb.units.si.prefixes
Types
The fundamental unit of information: a single "yes/no" answer.
The fundamental unit of information: a single "yes/no" answer.
Equivalent to one shannon:
A byte is 8 bits, and corresponds to one ASCII character in typical computer memory.
A byte is 8 bits, and corresponds to one ASCII character in typical computer memory.
- Note:
care should be taken to distinguish from
scala.Byte