<div dir="ltr">I thought there may be two options on the Hut'on naming ... <div><br></div><div>1) This could be a name pun. Was there someone named Hutton (Timothy? Lauren?) involved in a project with the word Bite in the title? Was someone named Hutton involved in early computer engineering? I don't have an answer here. But, there are a number of other name puns ("Hook" is derived from the actor who played the captain in the original Broadway production of "Peter Pan"). Perhaps this is an avenue to persue. </div><div><br></div><div>2) in the Klingon's olden days base three mathematics, might their byte have been 9, rather than 8 bits?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:25 PM Mark E. Shoulson <<a href="mailto:mark@kli.org">mark@kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I noticed the {Hut} there too. But that doesn't necessarily mean nine <br>
bits. Maybe the name was derived from some one-indexed counting of the <br>
bits, and named something relating to its ending at (i.e. before) the <br>
ninth bit. Or whatever twisted logic gave the French "huit jours" (lit. <br>
eight days) for "a week" and "quinze jours" (lit. fifteen days) for "a <br>
fortnight" (which at least comes from "fourteen nights", so the math <br>
works out for the English at any rate). Me, I'm going to choose to <br>
believe that it's eight bits (an "octet" to be hyper-technical) and <br>
named off-by-one because of some... reason.<br>
<br>
~mark<br>
<br>
On 7/22/19 12:33 PM, SuStel wrote:<br>
> On 7/22/2019 12:18 PM, Jeremy Silver wrote:<br>
>> I note we have a new word for byte, {Hut'on}. Is there some joke, or <br>
>> specific<br>
>> alien point that eludes us... or can someone not count?<br>
><br>
> In computing, not all bytes necessarily have eight bits. Not that I <br>
> would expect Okrand to be aware of this, as nearly all computing <br>
> nowadays deals with eight-bit bytes.<br>
><br>
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