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LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
Content-Transfer-Encoding for emails can be set to 7bit. we're so used to seeing 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and so on... but this is just a computer stereotype. it's ignorant to stigmatize computers in this way. what are some other weird bit amounts used for things?

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flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

is this bbs 7e1 or 8n1

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

i use every bit amount

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

24 bits is pretty common

pram
Jun 10, 2001
stop posting op

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

pram posted:

stop posting op

:agreed:

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
my people use all the bits of the computer

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014
3 bit computers are actually faster than normal computer

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

my computer has a 64-bit quad core, so by atari jaguar logic it's a 256 bit computer

BANME.sh
Jan 23, 2008

What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Grimey Drawer
this is a two-bit thread

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

pram posted:

stop posting op

yospos, bits!

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

BANME.sh posted:

this is a two-bit thread

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

z/os operates in 31-bits or 64 bits, op

beeman
May 7, 2008

69

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
early ARM processors had 26-bit addressing

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
and because of how the 8086 addressed memory (with the base+offset deal) it effectively has 20 bits of memory address space. and opcodes are 6 bits

doesnt some flash memory store 3 bits per cell?

Mahatma Goonsay
Jun 6, 2007
Yum
1.5 bits

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy
10 bit anime MKVs

FPS_Sage
Oct 25, 2007

This was a triumph
Gun Saliva
Please everyone be considerate of qubits, who choose to not identify as a single value.

FPS_Sage
Oct 25, 2007

This was a triumph
Gun Saliva

Maximum Leader posted:

3 bit computers are actually faster than normal computer

if binary computers use bits, then ternarny computers must use .... ? :xd::xd::xd::xd::xd:

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
terrys

That Robot
Sep 16, 2004

ask me anything about robots
Buglord
you son of a bit

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Raluek posted:

doesnt some flash memory store 3 bits per cell?

no, it stores 3 levels per cell (0, 1, or 2), not the same as bits.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

FPS_Sage posted:

if binary computers use bits, then ternarny computers must use .... ? :xd::xd::xd::xd::xd:

Most yosposters are incredibly unfamiliar with these

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
yospos bit!!!!

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

lose weight with this one weird bit doctors HATE

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
why would doctors hate their patients losing weight

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Dongslayer. posted:

my people use all the bits of the computer

The noble Indian uses every part of the computer.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
what about the evil bit?

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
"so is 2400 N81 your address or something?" - some dumb chick who doesn't "get" nerds like us

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Computer_architecture_bit_widths

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

my bit is too wide for this wrapper

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuna944dls

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

FPS_Sage posted:

if binary computers use bits, then ternarny computers must use .... ? :xd::xd::xd::xd::xd:

correct, trits :xd:

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
did anyone say baudot code yet

qntm
Jun 17, 2009
I invented Base32768, a 15-bit encoding optimised for sending binary data as UTF-16-encoded text without being mangled by normalization etc.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

well,

quote:

This guy thought I could save a name in 8.4 BITS.. like umm.. .4 BITS?? WTF is .4 BITS?? its either ON or OFF, not in between...

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

that is pretty great

I remember hitting that bug myself and losing all of my data

Uncle Enzo
Apr 28, 2008

I always wanted to be a Wizard
did you know that we only use 10% of the bits in our brain? about time we unlocked our potential i'd say

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Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
ham radio guys use 5-bit Baudot code to talk to each other with old rear end clanky teletypes and their windows 95 machines

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