bit : Java Glossary

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bit
BIT (Binary digit). Modems send information in a serial stream of zeros and ones. Each of these zeros or ones is called a bit. Eight bits is enough to encode one ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) character. In Java Unicode characters are 16 bits.

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