We'll look at words that haven't made it into dictionaries and cite the earliest uses found from our research. In today's Word Mine, we go back to the basics: the origins of bit, byte, and software.

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The biggest number you can make with a byte is 255, which in binary is 11111111, because it’s 128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1. You can also represent more complex information with bytes than you can with bits.