2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
7:32 a.m.
Nits? Are we going to have a spirited discussion or
are you going to pick
nits? (While you're at it, might as well bag on my execrable spelling and
egregious transposition errors, all firmly rooted in slowly advancing
presbyopia and the need for (yet another) set of trifocals.)
We are not picking nits - the math gets nasty.
(a nit is a unit of information related to the bit - essentially a bit has
2 values, but a nit has e (2.8mumble) values. Go look it up if you don't
believe me. I think it is an AT&T term, useful for random noise math
stuff)
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org