James Y Knight <foom <at> fuhm.net> writes: > On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > > > If a word is needed for this concept, then invent a new > > one, e.g. "size unit", rather than reusing "byte", which > > everyone already understands as meaning 8 bits. > > Nope. Everyone understands "octet" to be 8 bits.
And in French, the only word for "byte" is... "octet" ;-) Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
