You jest, but a byte isn’t always 8 bits (well, nowaday it kinda is, de facto, but it wasn’t always like that).
An 8-bit byte is called an octet, I don’t see it used much in english, but apparently it is used nonetheless, after a quick check.
Since octets are the standard byte size, I suppose we could call them “metric bytes”.
You jest, but a byte isn’t always 8 bits (well, nowaday it kinda is, de facto, but it wasn’t always like that). An 8-bit byte is called an octet, I don’t see it used much in english, but apparently it is used nonetheless, after a quick check. Since octets are the standard byte size, I suppose we could call them “metric bytes”.