The Alticor corporation owns both Amway and Quixtar, plus several other concerns. Quixtar replaced the North American business of Amway in 2001 after the majority of the distributors moved to Quixtar, with Amway operating in the rest of the world.
In information theory, units of information are also used to measure the information contents or entropy of random variables. The most common units are the bit, the capacity of a system which can exist in only two states, and the byte (or octet), which is equivalent to eight bits. Multiples of these units can be formed from these with the SI prefixes (power-of-ten prefixes) or the newer IEC binary prefixes (binary power prefixes).
1 3. BASIC PARTS OF A COMPUTER Desktop computer system. 2  4. BASIC PARTS OF A COMPUTER â¢ A. SYSTEM UNIT The system unit is the core of a computer system. 3  Usually it's a rectangular box placed on or underneath your desk. 4  Inside this box are many electronic components that process information. BASIC PARTS OF A COMPUTER â¢ B. STORAGE Your computer has one or more disk drivesâ devices that store information on a metal or plastic disk. 2  The disk preserves the information even when your computer is turned off.