[beginner] What's wrong?
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 3 00:57:16 EDT 2016
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> even though the French often still disagree,
> preferring words like « ordinateur » and « octet » over “computer” and
> “byte”, respectively
To be fair, "octet" is a slightly more precise term than
"byte", meaning exactly 8 bits (whereas "byte" could
theoretically mean something else depending on the
context).
There's no excuse for "ordinateur", though. :-)
--
Greg
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