I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 349. Here are my solutions to them.
1: A snack or bay for 8.
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byte
A snack (a bite to eat) or bay (a bight) for 8 (there are 8 bits in one byte).
2: Drill head in a horses’s mouth for 1.
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bit
Drill head (a bit) in a horses’s mouth (where a bit goes) for 1 (a single bit).
3: A quiet or pass for 4-64.
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word
A quiet (a quiet word) or pass (a password) for 4-64 (the Intel 4004 of 1971 had 4-bit words, and the ILLIAC IV of 1975 was the first with 64-bit words, now the standard in most modern processors).
The common factor
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They’re each fundamental data types in computing.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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