Yes, exactly. Why are you telling me this?<p>If we&#x27;re talking about C, we should use the technical definition of &quot;byte&quot; <i>as used by C</i>.<p>Everywhere else, sure, let&#x27;s view byte as a 8 bit entity. That&#x27;s so predominant that everything else would be nit-picking.<p>But not in the context of the C language.