Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

[Fred Ridder]

Doug Baily wrote:

> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".

Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus".

>
True enough.  But if the subject of interest is the auxiliary bus rather than 
the "it" that features the auxiliary bus, I'd argue that the bus deserves to be 
the subject of the sentence.  Keeping the topic in the subject rather than the 
predicate makes for more powerful, active writing.

-FR
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Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

[David Artman]

I find this an interesting grammatical/ topographical challenge. 16, as a sole 
adjective modifying bit(s), seems'isolated', regardless of narrative or 
referential context. "16 bits make a double byte".But it gets muddy in my mind 
when it's a compound "16-bit" adjective. Sure,  "16-bit processor " makes total 
sense to me. But "the processor is 16 bit" makes as much sense, even though 
that is an adjective. I'm ignoring, for this post, referential stat stuff: 
units and measures are adjectives and nouns, in tables or whatnot. No hyphen. I 
look forward to more thoughts! Weird corner caseDavidDCA:d.a.d
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Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

[Doug]

> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".

Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus".

>
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Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

[Fred Ridder]

In the style guides I used at my last two employers (Fortune 500 semiconductor 
companies), "16-bit" is hyphenated when used as an adjective before words like 
"register", "bus",  "value", "port", etc.
But when referring to the width of a data path or something similar, the 
preferred form was the non-hyphenated attributive noun phrase "16 bits" rather 
than the hyphenated adjective.  For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits 
wide".

FR


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Subject: [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" 

Working in a document that has both. Usually used as an adjective, as: "16 bit 
register."

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