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Knuth's new word: wyde!
Posted by
sengan
on Sun Oct 25, 1998 06:17 PM
from the semantics dept.
from the semantics dept.
D. Richard Hipp writes "I just made my quarterly pilgramage to Don Knuth's
web site where I descovered that he has coined a
new word, "wyde", and is encouraging people to use
it to mean a 16-bit quantity. He also advocates
the use of "tetrabyte" and "octabyte" to mean
32-bit and 64-bit values. See his arguments for
these new words here Opinions, anyone? "
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