A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and digital communications usually expressed as 0 (Zero) or 1 (One). The word bit is short for binary digit. Binary means there are two options e.g: true/false, 0/1 or on/off
Starting at Zero, the first 16 numbers in Binary are:
+---+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
+---+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 100 | 101 | 110 | 111 | 1000 | 1001 | 1010 | 1011 | 1100 | 1101 | 1110 | 1111 |
+---+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
Did you spot the pattern(s)? If not, I suggest you read up on counting binary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number
watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBDoT8o4q00 (how computers count)
A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits.
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001
H e l l o !
Try it: http://text2binary.herokuapp.com/
In mathematics and computing, hexadecimal (also base 16, or hex) is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F (or alternatively a–f) to represent values ten to fifteen.