Obsolete and Unusual Units
Several other units of information storage have been named.:
- 1 bit: sniff.
- 2 bits: crumb, quad, quarter, tayste, tydbit, semi-nibble.
- 5 bits: nickel, nyckle.
- 6 bits: byte (in early IBM machines using BCD alphamerics).
- 10 bits: deckle, dyme.
- 16 bits: doublet, plate, playte, chomp, chawmp (on a 32-bit machine).
- 18 bits: chomp, chawmp (on a 36-bit machine).
- 32 bits: quadlet, dinner, dynner, gawble (on a 32-bit machine).
- 48 bits: gobble, gawble (under circumstances that remain obscure).
- 64 bits: octlet.
- 256 bytes: paragraph
- 6 trits: tryte
Most of these names are jargon, obsolete, or used only in very restricted contexts.
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