5 Sep
2005
5 Sep
'05
3:07 p.m.
"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. Jeff Flinn