laurent@... a écrit :
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I celebrated:
> 
>  >      The February archive is a gzipped file of
>  > over 410 Ko a list traffic record that FBtoC has
>  > just snatched by from FB^3!
> 
> to which RP replied
> 
>  > I've always wondered why your file sizes are in Ko.
>  >...
> 
> I would love to have the "Acad'emie" on my side and
> maybe even Alain ;-)
> But the real reason is personal eccentricity.
> I believe that word construction should proclaim
> meaning wherever possible.  When I say "octet"
> I can hope everyone guesses that means eight (yes 8)
> bits. (Before Caesar, October was the eighth
> month of the Roman year. :-) Can I be sure that
> sizeof(byte) will not be bumped up by Moore in the
> next generation of Intel microprocessors?
> 

Not to mention that bit and byte sound exactly the same when read in 
French. This has got me confused at times, and I'm not an octogenarian 
(yet).

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