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 | | Well, prefixes can come at the end, smaller numbers can indicate greater quantities, and trees can grow downward: computing jargon can be pretty unintuitive. |
 | | An IP address is four bytes or more properly octets (since they are eight bits, and bytes are not guaranteed to be eight bits); each byte is interpreted as either defining the network address or the host address on that network. |
 | | The protocol used determines the way errors are checked, the type of compression, the way the sender indicates the end of the transmission, and the way the receiver indicates that the message has been received. |
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