<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 02:35, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom <<a href="mailto:cokidder@gmail.com">cokidder@gmail.com</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"><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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here's your answer to the pun pair behind {San'on} and {Hut'on}: <a href="https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20190719a/full/">https://thebitplayer.com</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>2) in the Klingon's olden days base three mathematics, might their byte have been 9, rather than 8 bits?</div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>I was thinking the same. <div><br></div><div>(Why not both?)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>