It took me about 14 years to figure out why half-bytes are called a nibble. Last week it hit me: A nibble is less than whole b(y|i)te. Duh.

Kasperle in Random on Nov 03, 2008, 11:39
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Awesome. What about writing some posts about the origin of computer science terminology?

#1 Lipflip (Link) on Nov 03, 2008, 23:23 (Reply)

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