A nibble is a set of four bits. As there are eight bits in a byte, a nibble is half of one byte also known as half-byte or tetrade.
The four bits in a nibble allow it to have 16 possible values, which is the same as one hexadecimal digit. Therefore, a nibble is also referred to as a hex digit
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In networking or telecommunication context, nibble is often called a semi-octet or quadbit or quartet.
For example, the decimal value of 10 in an 8-bit byte is 00001010 that same value in a 4-bit nibble is 1010.
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