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From: vrh@mh_co2.mh.nl (Michael Verheij)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Appeal for meaning of an acronym -- help!
Keywords: meaning, BIT
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Date: 28 Oct 88 10:20:36 GMT
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References: <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>  writes:
>I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source:
>
>	R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact
>	computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. 
>
>
>What the hell does BIT stand for?  I've asked professors, fellow students,
>and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library.  Help!
>

Have you ever thought of "BInary digiT"?
                          ^^         ^

That was one of the first things I learned at the The Hague Polytechnic.

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