[OT] Why is it called string?

[Greg Krohn]

<P at draigBrady.com> wrote in message news:3F44DBF2.1010403 at draigBrady.com...
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> bit is a contraction of "Binary digIT"
> byte is a pun on the word bit (8 bits)
> nibble is a pun on the word byte (4 bits)

I could swear there where more of these. Isn't there one for 2 bits and
32bits, etc?

While using [http://labs.google.com/sets] to see if I could find any others,
I ran across [http://www.intuitor.com/counting/HandCounter.html]. Look at
the represenation of 4 in binary. I hope that's just a joke.