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The word "bit" is made by combining the words "binary" and "digit." In computing, a bit is the smallest unit of data and can have a value of either 0 or 1, representing the binary system. The term "bit" was coined in the early 1940s as a contraction of these two words to describe the fundamental building block of digital information storage and processing.

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