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From: s2499576@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Shaya)
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Subject: RE: Looking for a / (the) Math Library for the HP48SX !
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Date: 22 Apr 91 19:31:35 GMT
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 > Yaniv Shaya writes about Wayne Scott's mailserver:> >>  He has a ton of stuff.
 > 
 > Well that's very interesting, because we can count how many bits he has,
 > and find out how much a bit weighs!  I've always wondered about this ...
 > 
 > Mark Adler
 > madler@pooh.caltech.edu
This was the original text from hp-ftp's posted here a while ago - not my personal writing.
BUT
if you want to know how much a bit weights, you should decide on what peripherial exactly, and then it would be quite easy to calculate the weight of a bit:
for example, take a chip, weight it and devide by the number of bits...