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Bits and Bytes

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:33

Computer Science is supposed to logical, Amirite?

Then why was the Byte defined as 8 bits?

Wouldn't things have been far more simple if they defined it as 10 bits in a byte?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:35

In what sense is arbitrary jamming a random decimal number into a representation of a binary number system ``more simple''?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:36

>>1
Novice troll.
>>2
Novice /prog/ poster.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:38

far more simple
How so?  There is nothing special about counting in base 10.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:40

>>4
There is: we are used to it (except our time system. Fuck Mayans).
But there is nothing special about counting in base 10 by computers.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:45

>>2
For computers, I give you it makes no difference. But for the end user it'd be more simple. So do you know why they defined a byte as 8 bits? I mean other measures in the world are mostly defined by base 10. Just look at SI units.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:47

Nono, I have a better idea; let's discuss kibibytes.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:57

>>1
Because it just is.  If they changed it now, shit would fly.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 15:01

Base 60 was here, Base 10 is a loser

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 15:03

>>8
So it's tradition to believe in christ but if we all stopped now there'd be a shitstorm

Unscientific anon.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 15:05

>>10
You might say,"he is ultimately destructive"

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 15:07

>>11
Gerald?

Name: Haxus the Unscientific 2009-08-22 15:32

>>7
I hate that crap.  To me there will only be kilobytes, megabytes, etc. and none of this kibi- mebi- gibi- bullshit.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 18:03

>>13
Enjoy your 900-gibibyte harddrives labeled as 1 metric terabyte.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 19:50

>>7
When writing, I use the acronyms KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, for binary representations, and KB, MB, GB, TB, for decimal ones, just so that I'm more accurate, but in common speech I just say the traditional decimal names to refer to the binary meanings. "mebibyte" and "gibibyte" sound retarded.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 19:57

>>4
All the base are base 10.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 20:13

How would things be more simple? Eight is a nice power of two. Eight is also two groups of four, within each a decimal number can be stored: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal . While it would only take seven bits to store 0 to 99, seven is an odd number and would make counting bits from bytes horrid, while the current scheme is: number_of_bits = number_of_bytes << 3;.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 21:13

>>14
900-gibibyte harddrives labeled as 1 metric terabyte.
1012/230 ≈ 931.323
wat

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 21:33

When you think about it, basing our civilisation on round numbers in base 10 was kind of stupid. If it at least had been nine we could have used ternary digits, but what do we get? One binary and one quinary digit, that's what.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 22:00

haxus the guy who tries to figure out the vulnerability but fails

Name: Haxus the guy who tries to 2009-08-22 22:55

>>20
:'(

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 22:56

[spoiler]A byte isn't always 8 bits.[spoiler]

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 22:57

>>21
Haxus who bumps my BBCode failure

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-23 3:25

[size=4][color=red]so bb codes work hear do thay[/color][/size]
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Name: Anonymous 2010-11-28 2:45

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