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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Word:-)

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 7 hours ago

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Funny, in Finnish a byte is called a syllable. Which would better apply to a nibble I guess.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

A word is typically 4 bytes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh. Shit, first I didn't know what a nibble is, now I didn't know what a word is ... I'll just show myself out and make sure I never try to write any assembler code.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

Well technically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable_(computing)