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From: root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Appeal for meaning of an acronym -- help!
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Date: 29 Oct 88 13:36:46 GMT
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From article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, by
 clifford@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Larry Clifford):
> 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!
> 
> Thanks very much.  -- Larry Clifford

Seems to me that BIT stands for Binary Digit. At least, that is what
it means when in reference to a "16 bit integer".

What does it mean in terms of the title of that magazine?
I sure don't know.

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