>octet Clearly implies 8 bits. >byte Unknown, unspecified

>>55416758
Because we aren't french

>>55416758
Kys stupid weaboo

>>55416785
Technical accuracy is more important than blind nationalism.
A byte could be any number of bits.
Only the octet is always 8 bits.

It's implied when talking about general file sizes or data transfer that a byte is 8 bits. It is not implied when talking about low level programming, for example a byte in the context of writing a program in C for multiple architectures.

>>55416820
IEC 80000 standardizes byte as being 8 bits.
so until 2009 or so, you'd have an argument of some sort.

by the 90s, there weren't any common architectures that didn't use 8-bit bytes, the 36-bit machines (that had 6 and 9 bit bytes and all kind of shit) were dying out, etc

>>55416820
>Technical accuracy is more important than blind nationalism

Prove it

>>55419178
Most Americans don't know if having a fifteen centimeter long cock is bad or not without Googling it.

>>55419292
15 cm is good

Because every computer vendor has answered the question "How many bits are your system's bytes?" in the same way for the last few decades now

>>55416758
>bit
that just means it's arbitrarily small
how do you know what a bit really is

>>55419324
Point proven. 15cm is only 6 in.

>>55419292
How is that relevant? I fail to see how Americans using the Imperial system is blind nationalism, especially since we use metric for anything that matters, and our country did not come up with the imperial scale in the first place

>>55419623
"Bit" is short for "Binary Digit". Binary implies that what is referred to has two states, while digit implies there is a single element with such a state.

tl;dr stop polluting /g/ and gb2 reddit