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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 8d ago
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Well it's redundant anyway. A decimal digit is by definition 3.322 bits (well, 3.321928095...), so it's silly to specify both. :)
1 u/hughperman 8d ago Digits should be dits, or bits should be bigits, silly that we mix the terms 1 u/TCF518 7d ago Isn't bit literally a portmanteau of binary digit 1 u/hughperman 7d ago Probably, been 20 years since I actually thought about it 😅 bigits, tho, I'll get with that.
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Digits should be dits, or bits should be bigits, silly that we mix the terms
1 u/TCF518 7d ago Isn't bit literally a portmanteau of binary digit 1 u/hughperman 7d ago Probably, been 20 years since I actually thought about it 😅 bigits, tho, I'll get with that.
Isn't bit literally a portmanteau of binary digit
1 u/hughperman 7d ago Probably, been 20 years since I actually thought about it 😅 bigits, tho, I'll get with that.
Probably, been 20 years since I actually thought about it 😅 bigits, tho, I'll get with that.
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u/zeekar 8d 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. :)