>>Half a byte being a nibble has always been a favorite of mine:-)
>>And there's also a quarter is 2 bits, does that make fifty cents (2 quarters) a nibble.
>>
>>>Yeah, that's what I originally thought. As I was composing my reply, doubt started to leak into the gray matter, which is strange...usually things leak out. Anyway, I asked a coworker and he said, "I don't know" and looked it up on the internet. I posted what he found.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Sorry to differ.
>>>>4 bits = nibble
>>>>8 bits = byte
>>>>16 bits = word
>>>>32 bits = double word
>>>>
>
>I guess 64 bits would be a "mouthful"!
Or $8.00 :-)
Regards,
Mike
"We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process."
- Glenford Myers
If you're going through hell, keep going. - Walt Disney
