Nibbles and Bytes

Greensprout

I'm doing a quiz at work and I can't find this answer anywhere..

'In computer terminology 100 Nibbles are equivalent to how many Bytes?'

Although I work in IT I've never hears of 'nibbles' guess I'm too young.

Anyone know the answer?

MadCowMan

way too young

there a 8 bits to a byte

4 bits to a nibble

Greensprout

Hmm a little confused..

So is the answer 50?

Just read the above reply! Thanks!

John_Gray

Some rather avant-garde people used to call it a nybble at the time.

And the sizes of words and double-words depended rather on the manufacturer and model of the machine you were using.

John

PS Which enables me to relate the pleasingly brief story about the Meteorological Office which at the time used a pair of Cray supercomputers, which they whimsically called Ronnie and Reggie ... :rotfl:

stevemcol

greenspout

yes, 2 nibbles in a byte so the answer is 50.

Nibbles are fairly important because a hex digit represents 4 bits, a nibble, decimal 0 to 15.

ManAtHome

Nybbles or nibbles, discs or disks... sure it was an ICL (Betamax) v IBM (VHS) thing...

Useful page for you http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nybble.html

wireframe_2

I was sure it was Nybble

TheFlyingGerbil

I'm only 25 and I learned about nibbles at a-level. Or is 25 old now! :eek:

Joe

Mr_Squiddy

wireframe wrote:

I was sure it was Nybble

It was 'nybble' back in my day. It seems to have changed.

ricksExpensive

Pmsl at "nybbles"

But did you know the highest term for space used at the moment (to my knowledge) is a

"Brontobyte - that is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes"

Just thought i would share that with you! LMFAO! If theres something bigger though please do correct me!

stevemcol

probably always has been nybble but I picked it up word of mouth so ended up spelling it nibble.