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burgerbrain
on Aug 11, 2011
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There is no need for scare quotes around
bits
. The term is being used in a technically correct fashion.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bit#Informati...
_hgt1
on Aug 11, 2011
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Err, yes thanks. I was trying to emphasise the fact that the multiplier of entropy is not the "bit", but the "word" (in the linguistic, rather than the computer architecture sense)
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