In our daily life when we talk about the weight of things around us, we use the unit of measurements for solid or liquid things as Kilo and Liter respectively, but when it comes to the world of computer, we measure (Weight) size of a program or memory as Bytes.

One byte is equal to 8 bits, any alphabet or character on your keyboard is build up of 8 bits which is a binary unit of Ones and Zeros. For example when you type A or B on your keyboard it translate this into binary digits as A = 01000001 or B=01000010. As you can count there are 8 bits of ones and zeros which will make each character size as 1byte, the difference between all the alphabets will be the placements of ones and zeros within 8 bits. Click here to view binary tables for English alphabets.

Coming back to the size of applications and storage media (RAM or Storage media), it is measures in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and now a day’s even terabytes. Below is the table which shows display the measurement of bytes and its abbreviation.