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What unit is used to measure memory size?
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1 of 2As I mentioned in exercise 1.5, you can represent the physical state of a single memory cell with a single digit binary number called a bit. But generally computer architecture is designed to read memory is longer units called bytes. This is an 8-digit binary number representing the state of 8 memory cells. So fundamentally, the units of memory that computers actually use are bytes. However, generally your memory chips will have millions or billions of memory cells and so it makes more sense to measure their size in megabytes/ MB (millions of bytes) or gigabytes/ GB (billions of bytes).
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