How many bits are there in a nibble?

Question

binary question :)

Answer 1

4 bits = 1 nibble

8 bits = 1 byte

Answer 2

I always understood a nybble to be 4 bits. Spelling intentional as a nybble was half a byte.

Answer 3

Four

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble

Answer 4

A nibble (often, nybble) is the computing term for a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet (an octet being an 8-bit byte).

Answer 5

4 bits. But I remember it being called a nybble instead of nibble, like byte versus bite.

Answer 6

0b100 bits, actually.

Answer 7

A nibble is normally bits BUT can refer to 2-7 bits, with 1 bit being a bit and 8 becoming a byte.

Answer 8

A nibble has 4 bits (although it doesn't have to).

That also means that when you view a byte's value in hex-notation, one hex digit corresponds to one nibble. That's one reason why going from hex to binary is much easier than from decimal to binary.

Answer 9

Bits Bytes Chips Clocks Bits in bytes on chips in box. Bytes with bits and chips with clocks. Chips in box on ether-docks.

Chips with bits come. Chips with bytes come. Chips with bits and bytes and clocks come.

Look, sir. Look, sir. Read the book, sir. Let's do tricks with bits and bytes, sir. Let's do tricks with chips and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a quick trick bit stack. Then I'll make a quick trick byte stack. You can make a quick trick chip stack. You can make a quick trick clock stack.

And here's a new trick on the scene. Bits in bytes for your machine. Bytes in words to fill your screen.

Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir. Try to say this by the clock, sir.

The answer is 4 bits. 2 nibbles make a byte

Answer 10

In grad school I didn't know the answer to this one. And when my lady professor asked me this question I mistakenly heard it as 'nipple'!!

Answer 11

a Nybble or nibble is 4 bits. Early compter graphics used 4 bits of data fro color. as memory was precious two pixels were stored in one byte, a upper nibble and a lower nibble.