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One nibble is equivalent to how many bits?(a) 2(b) 4(c) 8(d) 1The question was posed to me during an interview.Question is taken from The Input Unit in portion Basic Computer Organisation of Computer Fundamentals

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Right choice is (b) 4

To EXPLAIN I would say: A nibble is defined as a unit of DATA which COMPRISES of 4 BINARY digits or half of 8-bit byte.Therefore, 1 nibble = 4 BITS. A bit is the smallest unit of data in a computer system. A byte = 8 bits, therefore, half of a byte=4 bits=a nibble.



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