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narf poit chez BOOM said:
There are, however, 256 possible variations on an 8-bit byte, where a bit has two possible values. 
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And bytes are based on bits. That's where the 0 to 255 "standard byte" crap comes from.
00000000 translates to 0. 11111111 translates to 255. How a program interprets that is up to the programmer.
Of course, most programs use much, much larger slices of memory for...well, everything anyway so yeah.
Those of you that know what XOR means know what I'm talking about. :V