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> (1948: Claude Shannon founds Information Theory and coins the term "bit") Shannon used the term in his 1948 paper, but IIRC it was Tukey that coined the term
by rrss 7y ago
> (1948: Claude Shannon founds Information Theory and coins the term "bit")
Shannon used the term in his 1948 paper, but IIRC it was Tukey that coined the term and suggested it to Shannon.