Wikipedia: Bit

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For the computer term bit, see integral data type.

Computer term for the smallest unit of storage that can hold a single value of 0 or 1.
The name is short for Binary Digit. Apparently this won out over "bigit".

For more information see integral data type.

Computer term for the smallest unit of storage that can hold a single value of 0 or 1. The name is short for Binary Digit. Apparently this won out over "bigit".

For more information see integral data type.