Bit

Definition

In digital computing, the bit is the minimum unit of transportation, storage and processing of data.

It can be thought of as a light bulb that can be in either one of the following states:

off 40px|apagada or on 40px|encendida

A bit, in a binary numeric system, can be interpreted as `0 = Off` y `1 = On`. But in order to store, transport and process bits it's necessary to "pack" them in group of a determined size, commonly 8, 16, 32 o 64 of them per package: Powers of 2.

This bit packages are called bytes.