8 bits, which if i remember correctly, is 8 characters, i THINK it's 8 letters to a byte, 1 to a bit.
8 Bits = 1 Byte Also, 4 Bits = 1 Nibble = Half Byte
One byte, eight bits, 0.001 kilobytes, etc. Values from -128 to 127Java uses two's complement notation
The size of a byte primitive is 8-bits.