<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 15:23, 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>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>In case you missed it earlier in the thread, the real reason for the {Hut} is because the pun is based on the name of the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404632/">actor John Hutton</a>.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>