On Oct 24, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
I guess I was wrong all those years when I thought it was all based on binary. 1024 is 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 1024. You know binary 0 being the off state and 1 being on. Guess I was wrong.Nope. bit is an acronym. it stands for binary digit. You're right. To quote webopedia: Short for binary digit, the smallest unit of information on a machine. The term was first used in 1946 by John Tukey, a leading statistician and adviser to five presidents. A single bit can hold only one of two values: 0 or 1. More meaningful information is obtained by combining consecutive bits into larger units. For example, a byte is composed of 8 consecutive bits.
Jack Russell
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