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Sgent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 01:02 AM
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10. I meant
a binary word -- the answer is variable but currently 1, 2, 4, or 8 depending on ascii, Unicode, etc.

Word can also be used to describe an operational set (the amount used by a CPU) -- so in Intel Pentium 4 it would be 4 byte words.
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  -How many bits in a byte? Dragonfli  Aug-20-05 12:54 AM   #0 
  - 8  impeachdubya   Aug-20-05 12:54 AM   #1 
  - Very Good, You are not home schooled like some around here!  Dragonfli   Aug-20-05 12:57 AM   #2 
     - 1024  Sgent   Aug-20-05 12:58 AM   #3 
     - as many bytes as letters.  lvx35   Aug-20-05 01:00 AM   #6 
     - I meant  Sgent   Aug-20-05 01:02 AM   #10 
        - Variable because originally all it meant was the smallest  Mairead   Aug-20-05 09:31 AM   #23 
     - What kind of word?  The_Casual_Observer   Aug-20-05 01:01 AM   #8 
     - I want to say 1024 but I'll pass on the rats  impeachdubya   Aug-20-05 12:59 AM   #5 
     - ha ha I agree!  Dragonfli   Aug-20-05 01:05 AM   #11 
     - it can be 1000 or 1024  bananas   Aug-20-05 03:26 AM   #20 
  - and a baud is a bit, not a byte.  lvx35   Aug-20-05 12:58 AM   #4 
  - Bits/sec  The_Casual_Observer   Aug-20-05 01:02 AM   #9 
  - Wrong! It is 56 Kbit Modem. Baud is sample frequency...  uberotto   Aug-20-05 01:32 AM   #12 
  - Oh yeah?  lvx35   Aug-20-05 02:20 AM   #17 
  - While "close enough for government work," that's not really accurate  TahitiNut   Aug-20-05 01:35 AM   #13 
     - With the new "faith based math"...  Dragonfli   Aug-20-05 01:46 AM   #15 
        - Damn Liberals.  lvx35   Aug-20-05 02:18 AM   #16 
  - Whoa. I am so not getting involved in whatever fight you folks are having  impeachdubya   Aug-20-05 01:00 AM   #7 
  - there is really no answer  craigolemiss   Aug-20-05 01:43 AM   #14 
  - computer programmer's answer here  wli   Aug-20-05 02:20 AM   #18 
  - Ahhh, someone with a knowledge of computer history  Solo_in_MD   Aug-20-05 08:59 AM   #21 
  - CDC Cyber machines used a 6-bit 'half-ascii' byte packed 10 to a word  Mairead   Aug-20-05 09:35 AM   #24 
     - very interesting, I wasn't aware of the CDC Cyber char. encoding  wli   Aug-20-05 04:22 PM   #25 
        - You're right, it started as caps-only, but then when that became  Mairead   Aug-20-05 04:45 PM   #26 
  - 00001000. n/t  skids   Aug-20-05 02:25 AM   #19 
  - I used to ask this question on our job application  CabalPowered   Aug-20-05 09:03 AM   #22 
 

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