I thought there may be two options on the Hut'on naming ... 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. 2) in the Klingon's olden days base three mathematics, might their byte have been 9, rather than 8 bits? On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:25 PM Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org> wrote:
I noticed the {Hut} there too. But that doesn't necessarily mean nine bits. Maybe the name was derived from some one-indexed counting of the bits, and named something relating to its ending at (i.e. before) the ninth bit. Or whatever twisted logic gave the French "huit jours" (lit. eight days) for "a week" and "quinze jours" (lit. fifteen days) for "a fortnight" (which at least comes from "fourteen nights", so the math works out for the English at any rate). Me, I'm going to choose to believe that it's eight bits (an "octet" to be hyper-technical) and named off-by-one because of some... reason.
~mark
On 7/22/19 12:33 PM, SuStel wrote:
On 7/22/2019 12:18 PM, Jeremy Silver wrote:
I note we have a new word for byte, {Hut'on}. Is there some joke, or specific alien point that eludes us... or can someone not count?
In computing, not all bytes necessarily have eight bits. Not that I would expect Okrand to be aware of this, as nearly all computing nowadays deals with eight-bit bytes.
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