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.
| Standard Units | |
|---|---|
| Bits | {{Bits}} |
| Kilobits | {{Kilobits}} |
| Megabits | {{Megabits}} |
| Gigabits | {{Gigabits}} |
| Terabits | {{Terabits}} |
| Petabits | {{Petabits}} |
| Exabits | {{Exabits}} |
| Zettabits | {{Zettabits}} |
| Yottabits | {{Yottabits}} |
| Bytes | {{Bytes}} |
| Kilobytes | {{Kilobytes}} |
| Megabytes | {{Megabytes}} |
| Gigabytes | {{Gigabytes}} |
| Terabytes | {{Terabytes}} |
| Petabytes | {{Petabytes}} |
| Exabytes | {{Exabytes}} |
| Yottabytes | {{Yottabytes}} |