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   Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 13:24:47 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

   • Sir Murray_N

   @Murray_N Nibble and Crumb are definitely a thing. The rest is probably people just trying to be funny. How often do you refer to an 18bit data value?

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 13:01:47 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

     TIL

     We all know 1 byte is 8 bits. But did you know that half a byte is a nibble, half a nibble is a crumb, and half a crumb is a sniff? Also 2 bytes is a plate, 9 crumbs is a chomp. 2 plates is a dinner, 3 plates is a gobble, 2 gobbles is a bentobox.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_information

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     Mark :verified: (mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:13:42 JST Mark :verified:

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     • Sir Murray_N

     @ned
     The original LISP was implemented on 36 bit machines. CAR and CDR referred to 18 bit values (left & right).
     https://mschaef.com/blog/tech/lisp/car-cdr.html
     so you had both values stored into a single 36 bit storage.

     @Murray_N

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:59:09 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     • Mark :verified:

     @mhjohnson @Murray_N well there you go. Chomp validated as a unit of measurement.