Re:Building the Bell System
by thaliaarchi on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:24PM
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> The resulting units may be called binary digits, or more shortly, bits.
It's interesting to read this early use of “bit”, before the term became commonplace. The first publication to use “bit”, also by Shannon, was only a year prior[0].
It's interesting to read this early use of “bit”, before the term became commonplace. The first publication to use “bit”, also by Shannon, was only a year prior[0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit#History