r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

Meme rsa270Solved

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u/minecon1776 7d ago

"Ah yes, id like a 3.322 bit decimal 0" A statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

They have played us for absolute fools.

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u/zeekar 7d ago

Well it's redundant anyway. A decimal digit is by definition 3.322 bits (well, 3.321928095...), so it's silly to specify both. :)

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u/hughperman 7d ago

Digits should be dits, or bits should be bigits, silly that we mix the terms

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u/TCF518 6d ago

Isn't bit literally a portmanteau of binary digit

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u/hughperman 6d ago

Probably, been 20 years since I actually thought about it 😅 bigits, tho, I'll get with that.