Re: Efficiency Question : bits vs. bytes (or anything else, for that matter)

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From: Kevin Miller
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 00:39

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kkto@csd.hku.hk (Isaac To ~{6E<RG?~}) writes:

>A more crazy application pack 8 nibbles to the same word and the only
>thing he want to do to it is to add up them nibble by nibble as unsigned
>integers and there's guaranteed to be no overflow. 
  
I would assume that a nibble is a subdivision of a byte.  
But just out of curiosity, exactly how much *is* a nibble? 
  
                       - Kevin JaY Miller 
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Date: 4 Apr 1996 18:39:52 -0600
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