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On a side note, I always found the French word "octet" much better than "byte". First off, it avoid confusion with the unit naming (b = bits, o = octet, whereas
by maeln 6y ago
On a side note, I always found the French word "octet" much better than "byte". First off, it avoid confusion with the unit naming (b = bits, o = octet, whereas B/b can be confused for byte / bit) and it is also much precise, octet = octo = 8, so an octet is 8 bits. On the other end, a byte doesn't really tell you what it is only "commonly" 8 bits.
- 0x4a42 6y agoOctet is also an english word meaning a byte composed of 8 bits.
- moray 6y agoOcta is latin for eight, in fact also Italian has the word "ottetto" that is used more in an academic setting and becoming even less common. It is true though that in French saying Go (Giga-octet) instead of GB (Giga-byte) can avoid confusion with Gb (Giga-bit).
- thwave 6y agoThe Latin for eight is octo.
- jonasenordin 6y ago(Moi; ne qu' French as a distant third language:) I really like 'octet' too! OTOH, but 'byte' is also good, especially the witty 4-bit 'nybble'/'nibble' :: 'byte'/'bite' ...'quartet' I guess? And the 'Mo' instead of the Mb/MB, as pointed out. But my favourite is 'logiciel' for 'binary'. The article has some words like 'boufficiel' that seems to be derived from that, meaning bloatware - nice!