Editing nibble

A nibble, (often nybble or nyble) is [[4-bit architecture|4-bit]] of data. It may also be called a half-byte, quadbit, quartet, semi-octet, or tetrade. A nibble has 16 (2<sup>4</sup>) possible values. Since a [[hexadecimal]] digit is also able to represent up to 16 distinct values, it is common for a nibble to be represented as a single hexadecimal. Four bit [[Computer architecture|architectures]] uses the nibble as their must fundamental unit.