What’s a ‘bit’?
Bit: binary digit. This is the bit we hear when people speak of 64-bit processors or 256-bit encryption. Find out what this actually means.
Bit: binary digit. This is the bit we hear when people speak of 64-bit processors or 256-bit encryption. Find out what this actually means.
I've been a little absent from this blog lately, with Minnie and guests writing all the posts. Besides working, I have been thinking about things. Things like ice and pi.
Humans don’t really get numbers. Some isolated communities function without having numbers bigger than 4, which incidentally is about the highest number of ‘things’ we can reliably count with a glance. 1 thing. No worries. 2 things. Yep. Got it. 3 things. Indeed. At a glance, I’m all over this. 4 things. That’s 4 things, [...]