[beginner] What's wrong?
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sun Apr 3 01:34:27 EDT 2016
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 02:57 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> 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).
"Theoretically"?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2098149/what-platforms-have-something-other-than-8-bit-char
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Steven
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