From: "Jeff Flinn" <TriumphSprint2000@hotmail.com>
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:umzmtgton.fsf@boost-consulting.com...
Dave Gomboc <dave@cs.ualberta.ca> writes:
q.v. http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/n/nybble.html http://www.geocities.com/oosterwal/puzzle/nybbleq.html
but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nybble
forwards to nibble, so I imagine that nibble must be common in some circles.
FWIW, I've never seen the spelling with the 'y' before, AFAIK.
That's a new one on me as well. The hardware guys I deal with always use the term nibble. In fact our commercial product allows entering data in nibbles via it's GUI.
I, too, had not seen the spelling with "y" before so far as I can recall. I can remember thinking it was oddly inconsistent to use a "y" in one case and an "i" in the other. -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;