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Examples from literature

There is a ratio, based on bytes or files count, between the uploads and download. 
Today's computers mostly work on the basis of dealing with one "byte" at a time. 

byte | American Dictionary

byte
noun[ C ]
us/bɑɪt/
a unit of computer information, consisting of a group of usually eight bits (= single units of information)

byte | Business English

byte
noun[ C ]
(alsobite)uk /baɪt/us
IT
a unit of computer information consisting of a number of bits (= a unit of information that is either 0 or 1), usually eight bits:
All of this information can be reduced to bytes in a database that's quickly searchable.

Examples of byte

byte
The bytes that are sent on the network by the two systems are different.
The payload consists of a sequence of bytes, but the headers are regular data structures.
We have chosen bytes as our unit of pickling, so we define base to be 256.
The specifier big means that the bytes are in big-endian order, while the specifier little signifies that the bytes are in little-endian order.
These include the programming costs for having protocols directly handle byte ordering and word size incompatibilities between hosts.
The word byte brought forth nibble or nybble (half a byte) and gulp (two bytes), neither of which are much used, however.
Timings are given in milliseconds, space measurements in heap cells (4 bytes).
This is largely because the nature of message payloads requires that they be represented as low-level sequences of bytes.
Previous requirements had allowed systems to return five candidate answers, and the answers could be between 50 and 250 bytes in length.
Any dangling bytes are ignored; a more robust implementation could signal error.
Internally each halfspace requires 16 bytes of memory in addition to the space required for enumerated types at the interior nodes and links between nodes.
Implementing a variable-variable binding with the bit-map scheme would expand each feature bit field to several bytes to hold variable addresses, losing its advantage.
The opcode byte of each instruction is replaced by the address of the code that implements the instruction.
What is missing is a system that can deal with the semantics of these byte streams, and this is where agents can help.
For these figures the packet size sent by clients was kept fixed at 64 bytes, sent three times a second.
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