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That is called a "bit", short for "binary digit".
1 is a single digit, 0 is the absence of a digit.
In binary, the digit 1 is the highest digit in the system (consisting of 0 and 1). In a boolean machine language, a 1 is interpreted as "true".
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6 A byte can be an eight digit b number. On some computing applications, bytes can be other sizes. Not every 8 digit b number is called a byte because byte refers to a computing context.