[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Kass) writes: [...] > If there are eight bits, why shouldn't they be bits one > through eight?
Because then the number of a bit doesn't correspond to the exponent of its weight, so I even don't know in which order they are specified (as many people order bits backwards, i.e. from the most significant). -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/