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by EvanAnderson 1923 days ago
From page 6, describing the representation of binary numbers: The word bigit is defined as binary digit.

I'm kind of sad that "bigit" didn't stick.

Edit:

From page 291, I'm also enjoying:

The "turn-on" and "turn-off" procedures for the computer naturally seem to be more in the domain of the engineers rather than that of the programmers; however, the turn-off procedure has been simplified to the extent that the programmers can do it.

The machine has two different breakpoints types-- "red" and "green". That's an interesting feature. The instruction set architectures I'm used to don't have such a concept and it's interesting to think about.

1 comments

Let's make "bigit" a thing. Just start using until it becomes a thing.
Might run into confusing with BigInt perhaps, but I agree, what a neat term!
Bigits are not for igits?