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About these units
Nibble (nibble)
A nibble consists of 4 bits, exactly half of a byte. It is the smallest unit that can represent a single hexadecimal digit (0–F), which makes it essential in low-level data representation. Nibble operations arise in microcontroller design, bitwise arithmetic, encryption algorithms, and early computing architectures that manipulated data in 4-bit chunks. Although modern systems process much larger word sizes, nibbles remain conceptually important: digital logic circuits still group bits in fours for hexadecimal notation, instruction encoding, and debugging tasks. In many ways, the nibble serves as the bridge between binary and human-readable representations of digital information.
Character (character)
A character is not a fixed quantity of bytes but rather a conceptual unit representing a single textual symbol. Historically, characters corresponded to one byte under ASCII, allowing for 256 distinct values. With the rise of Unicode, characters now require variable-length encoding—from 1 to 4 bytes in UTF-8, or fixed widths in UTF-16 and UTF-32. This flexibility allows representation of all human writing systems, mathematical symbols, emojis, and historic scripts. Characters are the foundation of text processing, natural-language computing, and human-computer communication. Software engineering, databases, and web technologies must carefully distinguish between characters and bytes to avoid encoding errors and data loss.