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Originally Posted by SammyC
Actually it usually works out to be 10 bits in a byte, on a serial comms link the protocol overhead adds roughly 2 bits per byte.
I.e. a 512 kBITSps == 50 kBYTESps.
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But a byte is and will always be 8 bits, not 10 regardless of 'overhead'. A byte can hold any value between 0 and 255. 0 expressed as binary is %00000000, while 255 is %11111111.
1 = %00000001
2 = %00000010
3 = %00000011
4 = %00000100
5 = %00000101
6 = %00000110
7 = %00000111
...and so on.