From: "john gilmore" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 2 August 2010 11:49 PM
The question--What use are one-bit counts for a bit string?-- would occur only to someone who was unfamiliar with bit maps and their uses.
Bit counts could have been used to count the number of values on a card, and to count the number of Y/N responses in a survey (on a punch card), etc etc.
