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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nybble.html

Worth noting that at the time of documentation a half-byte was a nybble, and the more mundane spelling came along later

edit: ooooo I just remembered the Cox-Zucker algorithm too! Evidently the two guys behind the algo only decided to work together because of their last names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine

[โ€“] roguetrick 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I appreciate that some fucking guy recorded himself reading that goddamn article and his accent makes Cox Zucker completely indistinguishable from cock sucker.