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There is no need for scare quotes around bits. The term is being used in a technically correct fashion. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bit#Inf

• adnam 15y ago
  Err, yes thanks. I was trying to emphasise the fact that the multiplier of entropy is not the "bit", but the "word" (in the linguistic, rather than the computer architecture sense)