{"id":544,"date":"2015-04-11T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2015-04-11T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:44:53","slug":"a-bit-on-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/11\/a-bit-on-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit on Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Betty-Boop-The-Essential-Collection-3.10-1938-Be-Up-to-Date-000306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-545\" src=\"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Betty-Boop-The-Essential-Collection-3.10-1938-Be-Up-to-Date-000306.jpg\" alt=\"Electric Razor: 1010001\u00a2\" width=\"159\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric Razor: 1010001\u00a2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My precious daughters and I were watching an old Betty Boop cartoon (transferred from the original nitrate to 1080p) which included a sign for an electric razor priced at &#8220;6 1\/2 bits&#8221;. Knowing &#8220;two bits&#8221; represents\u00a0a quarter dollar, making one bit \u215b of a dollar, I wondered if a &#8220;bit&#8221; in computer-terminology was etymologically related.<\/p>\n<p>They are not.<\/p>\n<p>The \u215b of a byte\u00a0bit is shorthand for &#8220;binary digit&#8221;\u2013 a term which won out over such competing candidates as &#8220;bigit&#8221; or &#8220;binit&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My precious daughters and I were watching an old Betty Boop cartoon (transferred from the original nitrate to 1080p) which included a sign for an electric razor priced at &#8220;6 1\/2 bits&#8221;. Knowing &#8220;two bits&#8221; represents\u00a0a quarter dollar, making one bit \u215b of a dollar, I wondered if a &#8220;bit&#8221; in computer-terminology was etymologically related. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}